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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Lee and Schamus make history blandly palatable; in the process, they rob the times and the people they’re portraying of their complications."
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Time Out New York |
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3.5/4 |
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(1945) |
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"A Tale of Archery feels very much at odds with the popularly accepted view of Naruse as a stasis-minded chronicler of the modern-day Japanese working class."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1997) |
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"Taste of Cherry might be Kiarostami's most difficult film."
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The House Next Door |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Pitched somewhere between cringe-worthy Disney treacle and the sublime discomfort of “Ren & Stimpy.""
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It's sad that Spielberg seems content to engage in crude slapstick—the mischievous diversions of a crowd-pleaser."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"Much like Tetro and Bennie in the film’s final scene, Coppola has been swallowed whole by darkness and yet attained a necessary clarity that may otherwise have evaded him. It could be said, strangely enough, that the abyss was never so enlightening."
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Time Out New York |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Paravidino is no young prophet, but a poseur disguising the general meaninglessness of his wayward youth parable via a tarted up mise-en-scène and a highly attractive cast."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Less a film about existential crisis than its decided lack, about how easy it is to ignore the world's disastrous and horrific elements at the slightest twinge of uncertainty or trespass into our personal space."
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The House Next Door |
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(2008) |
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"Talking heads revolve and the verité stylings are undistinguished, but this is the kind of important subject matter that tempers one's desire to quibble with aesthetics."
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The House Next Door |
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3.5/4 |
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(1935) |
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"Even at a relatively brief 64 minutes, it feels as if Three Sisters explores a lifetime of heartache and tragedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Tim Burton's Corpse Bride shows that imitation is the sincerest form of flattening."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1940) |
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"Naruse has an affection and love for these characters that is far removed from cruel condescension."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Rohmer’s dialogues are in peak form, always building in their back-and-forth volleys to spine-tingling epiphanies."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The conceit of this Tristram Shandy is that it knows it's a movie, much as Sterne's book knew it was a novel."
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Slant Magazine |
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5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The truth about Charlie is that there's so much more here than you've been led to believe."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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3/4 |
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(1938) |
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"Primarily a vehicle for its very attractive stars Isuzu Yamada and Kazuo Hasegawa."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1990) |
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"Hot damn, this pie is good!"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Two Brothers is like a children’s book come to life, and it’s this summer’s “family film” to beat."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/6 |
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(2009) |
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"The mostly first-person documentary Tyson isn’t a dud, exactly, but it does feel like a missed opportunity."
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Time Out New York |
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