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(1966) |
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"The foreground drama ends on a query, while the Gallic hills and highways stretch to eternity. FIN."
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The House Next Door |
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2/4 |
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(1962) |
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"Mafioso is many things, but a good movie ain't one of 'em."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1937) |
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"Age and wisdom exit the stage, leaving youthful oblivion."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Moral rot captured with religious fervor."
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The House Next Door |
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(2004) |
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"Do you have dreams of owning The Manchurian Candidate?"
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A frightening update to John Frankenheimer’s war-as-game scenario—except the battle now is for our very souls."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1968) |
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"Sembene is clearly at his best when trusting in cinema's powers of observation."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1968) |
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"Mandabi is the root of all evil."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Manufactured Landscapes is a film very much aware of its own existence, of the mechanisms that brought it about, yet it never again reaches the transcendental heights of its pre-credits prelude."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books/You're very well-read/It's well-known."
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The Reeler |
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(2008) |
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"Screens within screens, frames within frames -- that's the simplest way of approaching Married Life's allusive/elusive roundelay."
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The House Next Door |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Woody's most baldly revealing picture, a reprehensible and misogynist pseudo-thriller that is also aesthetically polished and compulsively watchable."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"These people have no idea how to make a movie!"
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1951) |
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"Repast feels like something of a warm-up to Naruse's subsequent Sound of the Mountain."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In retrospect it is clear that the rapturous Miami Vice is the work Mann has been building to."
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The House Next Door |
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(2007) |
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"Dude, there’s a bomb in your car."
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The Reeler |
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(2008) |
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"Bad art serves no one, but the reach for significance is often enough to proffer a pat-on-the-back and an affirmative nod, as if 'attempt' and 'achievement' were suddenly synonymous terms of action."
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UGO |
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3.5/5 |
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(1997) |
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"I've seen the end of the world."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1998) |
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"We are racing toward an apocalypse of our own creation. This is who we are.
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Slant Magazine |
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(1996) |
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"I prophesy: You will buy Millennium: Season One. You can’t stop it."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1991) |
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"As Saint Francis of Assisi reflects in ... La Chanson de Roland, Mont-Saint-Michel is a place of enquiry."
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Senses of Cinema |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Kurt Russell's performance transcends the film's unilateral politics to achieve a viewer-conversant three dimensions."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A racist, crocodile-tear-stained period screed sprung from the 'aw shucks' psyche of everyone's favorite Andy Griffith sidekick, little Ronny Howard."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/6 |
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(2009) |
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"MvA is mostly a brainless parade of half-baked gags, punctuated by the occasional fourth-wall-breaking effect. Only those who desire a paddleball to the kisser or a face full of Mothra snot need apply."
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Time Out New York |
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3/4 |
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(1952) |
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"Simultaneously sentimental and meta."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(1997) |
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"A painting in perpetual motion."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1997) |
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"A film to die to."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Both the body and the body politic are under attack in Mother of Tears."
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The House Next Door |
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(2008) |
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"Estrada's most incendiary proposition: that God is, at heart, a hoi polloi construct, a buffer and security blanket that damagingly keeps the world's many harsh realities at bay."
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The House Next Door |
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Let us start from the dual positions that sex can (potentially) bring us closer to God and that cinema, in and of itself, is a holy medium given to the transcendent."
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Reverse Shot |
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(2009) |
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"For a while, the film concerns itself with the everyday, so much so that the thread of revenge ... seems to be buried under the mere fact of eking out a living."
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The House Next Door |
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"Chekhov’s principle of drama is in full effect, but what’s remarkable about this film is how it slowly steers its way from portent to poetry."
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Time Out New York |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Even those unfamiliar with the work of Roberto Rossellini should get something out of Guy Maddin's haunting and memorable short film My Dad is 100 Years Old."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2003) |
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"And I take a page from Ann Miller and say it's all a load of horse-puckey."
[movie review] |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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