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68/100 |
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" Corman's widescreen framing, the blazing Technicolor photography, and the effectively maximized production values created a convincing, if twisted, world."
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77/100 |
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(2006) |
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"His elaborate sound design, skillfully deployed comic effects, and sophisticated visual minimalism suggest the work of a master of the form."
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27/100 |
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(2007) |
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"The whole experience of watching this is tense, dehumanizing, and fairly baffling."
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38/100 |
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately a feature-length tease, the movie remarkably insubstantial and uninvolving for something that tries so desperately to live in the moment."
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66/100 |
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(1969) |
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"Lindsay Anderson's boldly allegorical drama If... features a sly script that very slowly reveals just how strongly it is protesting against authority."
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31/100 |
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(2006) |
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"It calls out the clichés of its genre only to end up willingly indulging in them more often than not."
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41/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Both less inventive and less substantial than it seems to think it is, this would-be epic suffers from the comparisons it prompts as it references a series of silent classics."
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64/100 |
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(2008) |
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"The director employs his entire bag of tricks to keep the audience on the edge of their seats, from shock cuts and loud chords on the soundtrack to performances that devour the scenery."
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55/100 |
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(2007) |
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"To complain that Andersson's skits are difficult or boring to sit through because they seem too close to the pain of daily life is to pay them some kind of a compliment."
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29/100 |
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(2007) |
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"For now, the best that can be said about Zvyagintsev is that he seems like he could potentially be a master filmmaker someday, even if he's still not made a good movie."
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56/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Ultimately, The Mourning Forest is not so much flawed as it is unable to create a very powerful impression."
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82/100 |
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(1966) |
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"The product of a director in complete control of his talents, Second Breath musters enough depth that by its conclusion it feels only nominally like a heist film."
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43/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Ratliff never acknowledges that his audience has likely seen this setup dozens of times before, making the film feel laborious and unsurprising."
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66/100 |
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(2007) |
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"There's no doubt while watching Ang Lee's Lust, Caution that you're in the hands of a supreme filmmaker."
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55/100 |
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(2007) |
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"With each new shot, angles and perspectives are shifted, requiring viewers to reorient themselves."
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46/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Ultimately, Happiness seems most distinctive not as a specific director's work, but rather as an entry in a distinctly Korean melodramatic subgenre."
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76/100 |
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(2007) |
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"In this day and age, its stripped down incisiveness is nearly unfathomable."
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53/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Tsai's style is essentially written in stone at this point, and [this] hardly challenges it. [He] is as visually adept here as ever, right up to the film's peaceful final shot."
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37/100 |
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(2006) |
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"Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute comes on strong %u2013 maybe too strong..."
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81/100 |
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(2006) |
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"Despite non-stop horror and perversity, nothing in the movie seems gratuitous. Its vision remains so comprehensive and convincing that it justifies everything that it puts you through."
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55/100 |
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(1977) |
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"It confronts the viewer with several questions that cannot be easily answered, providing considerable food for thought."
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38/100 |
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(2007) |
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"With the political message of Persepolis considerably softened, the overall effect is dulled significantly."
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42/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Beyond the Years suggests, rather simplemindedly, that purity of heart and endless practice are the keys to a great performance."
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86/100 |
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(2006) |
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"Like a city symphony film viewed under a microscope, Nathaniel Dorsky’s rapturous non-narrative work Song and Solitude abstracts the everyday in revelatory ways."
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49/100 |
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(2008) |
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"Fans of the genre will likely leave it satisfied, although it's not as likely that they’ll feel satisfied the whole time they're watching."
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58/100 |
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(2007) |
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"[It] could do with some editing (indeed, the parenthetical in the title refers to its unshaped state), but there's just as little doubt that Nemescu's work is pretty worthy as is."
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72/100 |
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(2008) |
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"Through its clever advancements of the zombie genre and its consistently surprising series of set pieces, [it] earns the right to stand alongside anything that Romero has made."
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41/100 |
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(2007) |
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"With all of the bulk, but none of the substance, of your average epic production, American Gangster lumbers across the screen with such obviousness that it is almost shocking."
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39/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Watching the film, which is well-organized but utterly artless, one wonders who, exactly, it's trying to sway."
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46/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Charlie Wilson's War manages to be at once utterly irresponsible and mildly entertaining."
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56/100 |
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(2007) |
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"A better than average omnibus film."
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76/100 |
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(2006) |
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"Enough is left vague that an abstract quality is achieved, and the effect is one of amplification of the themes running throughout the film."
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52/100 |
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(1964) |
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"Almost distractingly, faithful to the original novel despite its radically different setting, the film is a pleasure mostly because of its vivid Technicolor backdrops."
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33/100 |
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(2007) |
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"That Juno has been heralded for its realistic portrayal of a teen girl's point of view demonstrates how poorly the demographic has been represented on screen."
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97/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Here is a film that makes its enormous intentions abundantly clear, then follows up on them magnificently, resulting in what seems destined to become a bona fide American classic."
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65/100 |
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(2008) |
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"To complain that it is hardly a film that shows Wong at the height of his power is to close oneself off to the small, somewhat lovely pleasures that it manages to offer."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters."
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4/4 |
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(1934) |
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"One of the best in Universal's storied horror cycle."
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76/100 |
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(1958) |
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"By stressing the universal elements of Stevenson’s story, Renoir eradicates the creakiness of the plot, spinning the tale into something that still feels relevant."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Plunges the viewer almost directly into its nightmarish scenario."
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85/100 |
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(1944) |
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"The resultant tone of The Woman in the Window is completely unremitting, until it hilariously does remit."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This disturbing social order, both inside and outside the Triad, is the series’ defining characteristic. Because of its emphasis, this installment satisfies, even if another sequel feels inevitable."
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4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Marie Antoinette creates biography as much through its soundtrack, attitudes and its close-ups as it does through its action and dialogue."
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(1930) |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"When [narrator Slavoj Zizek's] firing on all cylinders, such as when he examines a series of voyeuristic characters peering through cracks or when he turns his analytical powers on Psycho, he brings new life to the films he discusses."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Despite Hamer’s deadpan, frequently wordless staging of his finely shot scenes, the end result is a disappointingly literal portrayal of a twentieth-century poet’s life."
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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