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"Animation is so often used for frivolous flights of fancy that it’s something of a shock to see it employed in the service of a tale that emphasizes human foible and mortality."
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(1971) |
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"As infamous serial murderer John Reginald Christie, Richard Attenborough is just exaggerated enough to remain credible."
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"Jia is one of the guiding lights of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, and 24 City is a potent exploration of his constant theme -- the tectonic shifts that occur as the old gives way to the new."
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"7 Women is, in actuality, a great film whose potboiler plot masks an incisive inquiry into the battle of the sexes."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Save the voice work, which is celebrity-heavy and mostly undistinguished, 9 is a marvel to take in, especially the individual character designs."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The sex scenes are clearly filmed with progression in mind, moving ever outward from the characters until their organs take center stage."
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(2002) |
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"An engrossing, if flawed, first step into the digital world from a cinema master."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"There is a sense here of an encroaching darkness humbly met, unburdened by one-note feelings such as fear or joy and simply experienced as a profound moment of enlightenment."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Alix knows how to frame a shot to emphasize his character’s ever-shifting emotional states, but there’s something missing, an elemental sense of space that would better complement the heroine’s figure-in-a-landscape distress."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"As if in answer to Haiti's continuing cycle of violence, [Jonathan] Demme proposes through [Jean] Dominique a new cycle of hope."
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5/5 |
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(1974) |
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"Many of Fassbinder's best films possess a kind of cosmic balance. No one character or belief rises above another without the other shoe dropping."
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6/6 |
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(1979) |
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"The limited strengths of its staple sci-fi horrors always derived from either the offhand organic/ Freudian resonances of its design or the purely (brilliantly) manipulative editing and pacing of its above-average shock quota."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"This then is David Gordon Green's cinema - messy, frustrating, and fascinating, an ever-growing process towards something unknown."
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(1970) |
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"As Billy Wilder turned a crumbling Berlin into a slapstick, satirical playground in One, Two, Three, so Fassbinder offers up The American Soldier's Munich as a monochrome city of sadness."
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3/6 |
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(2009) |
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"How dark the con of Ron that he can so vividly simulate thought in what is truly an intellect-free enterprise."
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4/4 |
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(1958) |
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"Naruse examines his own faults and fears through Ryokichi, though he also considers the reverberating effects of the character's actions."
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(2007) |
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"It's the minor details that impress more than the high falutin' ones."
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3.5/4 |
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(1960) |
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"In tenor, The Approach of Autumn recalls the stark, light-touch despondency of Morris Engel's Little Fugitive."
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4/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Egoyan uses the inherent falseness of movies ... to achieve a truth his own."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"August Days seems a profound amalgam of all the versions of this story that could ever be told."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Cage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic."
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(2008) |
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"[Jacques] Nolot writes, directs, and stars as Pierre Pruez, an HIV-positive bottom boy-no-longer who navigates his ruined life and beauty with aplomb."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This version of Nyreröd's efforts tends to focus on the more familiar touchstones of Bergman's career, though it does go significantly in-depth on the guilt he feels over his many failures as a husband and a father."
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2.5/4 |
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(1983) |
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"For its first 13 episodes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is most decidedly a masterpiece."
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3/4 |
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(1922) |
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"It goes without saying that the discovery and restoration of the 1922 Gloria Swanson/Rudolph Valentino melodrama Beyond the Rocks is a cause for celebration"
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(2009) |
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"From deadpan to Ultraman."
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UGO |
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(2006) |
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"The tragedy of Black Dahlia is that there is no finality for anyone--solving the "mystery," so to speak, counts for next-to-nothing."
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(2006) |
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"Ghost World: Keith Uhlich on The Black Dahlia for Reverse Shot's Brian de Palma symposium."
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(2006) |
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"Tell the Dahlia you think that it's beautiful."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!"
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(2007) |
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"Black Sheep takes one of nature's most decidedly non-threatening creatures and arms 'em, deliriously and deliciously, with ravenous, razor-edged teeth."
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(2006) |
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"The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros is a lo-fi Technicolor ode to this memorable protagonist, a neorealist homo noir."
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(2005) |
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"Make your way toward Pluto and don't forget your bottle of Chanel No. 5!"
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An odd, at times off-putting mixture of camp inflection and earnest insight."
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(1947) |
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"The future Lord Dickie’s sinister stylings are what linger, especially the vitriolic audio recording he makes for his betrothed, done as if damnation were the most casual of enterprises."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"I suspect the film's frank, at times glorious rendering of queer sexuality will inspire more than a few closeted youths to brave life out in the open."
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3/5 |
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(1963) |
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"For all its annoyances -- and there are many -- the film somehow sears its way into the mind’s eye."
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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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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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(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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(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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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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(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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(2004) |
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"All genetically predisposed cinephiles must own Code 46."
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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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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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(1994) |
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"Hotchi Motchi! “The Critic” gets a respectful and well-deserved DVD treatment."
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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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(2007) |
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"A highly flawed personal vision, containing what the Screenwriter 101's among us would deem various and sundry "third act problems.""
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(1939) |
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"Even by the standards of a typical Bette Davis melodrama Dark Victory is an embarrassment of riches."
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