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44/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Every moment of this sub-Annie Hall routine confounds not only audience expectation of a balanced feminine perspective but the very notion of romance itself."
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72/100 |
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(2009) |
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"The tenderness that À L'aventure discovers as it stares into the void might be its most radical gesture of all."
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82/100 |
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(2009) |
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"By turns provocative, repulsive and downright elemental, it churns with such a surfeit of unresolved energy that it's likely to leave viewers dazed and confused by the end of its assault."
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25/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It explains that the world is broken and dares you to agree that it's honest. It promises engagement, but delivers only retrenchment."
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27/100 |
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(2009) |
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"A determinedly ugly movie, as brutish in its delivery as its subject is brutish in character, Bronson fails to offer meaningful insight into the life of a singularly idiotic individual."
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58/100 |
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(2009) |
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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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53/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It announces Na Hong-jin as a filmmaker willing to go to places that even most so-called horror movies would shy away from."
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43/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It fails to be the exploitation movie it desperately wants to be. Too much attention is paid to the tear-jerking elements, which never register because the plot is so sparse."
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35/100 |
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(2009) |
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"[F]or all of its attempted transgressive wonderment and morbid curiosity, Coraline remains firmly grounded in convention."
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39/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It devolves into a morass of bitterness, losing even the rooting interest in the underdog that makes the formulaic structure of most sports films forgivable."
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39/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Such modestly crafted moral tales sometimes manage win the audience over, but here the tone wavers too much for sincerity to be felt."
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54/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Though it seems no more or less effective than what's come before when it comes to generating moments that make people jump in their theater seats, [it] becomes harder to take pleasure in due to its callousness."
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63/100 |
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(2009) |
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"What results is an irreducible and complex portrait of the drama that is modern life. Téchiné, much to his credit, has transformed here a thoughtless action into something that is capable of making the mind reel with implication."
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41/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Somewhat singular because of its sheer force of will, but ultimately puzzling, Il Divo is hard to discredit entirely, because it so clearly operates on its own terms."
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62/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Lake Tahoe confirms Embicke as a promising young talent, but simultaneously raises some worries that he's only able to offer a small, singular form of pleasure."
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53/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Jim Jarmusch takes no prisoners, especially from his audience, in his quest for art house glory."
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64/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Trapero eschews the predictable pleasures of the women-in-prison genre, always opting for introspection and diffusion over dramatic force."
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57/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s undeniable that the specificity relayed in every moment of the depiction of Lorna’s humdrum existence trumps the vagueness that surrounds her spiritual awakening."
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57/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s undeniable that the specificity relayed in every moment of the depiction of Lorna’s humdrum existence trumps the vagueness that surrounds her spiritual awakening."
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64/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It's an easy movie to snipe at, but its quest for authenticity, even in its most affluent characters, is honorable."
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48/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Jones is a methodical filmmaker, and he conveys his plot without mucking it up too terribly, but he's also dull."
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46/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Valentine is not attempting to appeal to highbrows, but its general lack of ambition in the face of both a potentially exciting new technology and a script that suggests a potential emphasis on characterization is rather dispiriting."
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42/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Too cute by half, filled with myriad forced moments of magic, O'Horten attempts to cast a nuanced spell, but ends up making rather little impression at all."
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39/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It fails to turn its assemblage of stock footage and sarcastic observation into the grand summation of a place and era it would love to be."
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63/100 |
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(2009) |
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"An effort that handily trumps the first in every respect, Ong-Bak 2 further cements Tony Jaa's status as one of the era's key action stars."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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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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66/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It is about as pleasing a star-driven comedy as one could reasonably expect to open in wide release during the dog days of summer."
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47/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Public Enemies traffics in the accumulation of detail at the expense of a big picture."
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59/100 |
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(2009) |
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" Absolutely derivative, but nonetheless of interest."
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57/100 |
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(2009) |
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"[It] broadens the appeal of its cult property, turning what was once strictly nerd fodder into a shaggy dog action movie."
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66/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Summer Hours is undeniably in touch with the way we live, eminently respectable, and a tad forced."
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81/100 |
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(2009) |
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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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(2009) |
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"For viewers who are willing to accept the sheer adolescence of Coppola's thematic obsessions and stylistic approach, Tetro shows plenty of questionably placed inspiration."
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58/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It is accomplished, but overdetermined. Its dramatic force can’t its equal its visual impact, resulting in a clear indication of where Ceylan’s strengths as a director lie."
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63/100 |
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(2009) |
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"With this sudden shift in genre and ambition, Kurosawa ends up delivering his best film yet."
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33/100 |
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(2009) |
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"One can't tell if it's inspired in its attempts to find something that will draw us in or just colossally sloppy."
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53/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Kim is undoubtedly a skilled director, but she’s someone who seems more content to observe than state."
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58/100 |
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(2009) |
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"What stands out about the production above all else is the quality of the casting."
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34/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Goldthwait's movie tries so desperately to be edgy that it's hard not to laugh at it."
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55/100 |
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(2009) |
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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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50/100 |
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(2009) |
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"[It] seems rather quaint, resulting in a movie that is well-meaning, and certainly well-mounted, but somewhat devoid of real excitement."
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66/100 |
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(2008) |
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"At once tragically wounded and gloriously shameless, Bad Biology is a must-see for a certain, self-selecting breed of filmgoer."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Blind Mountain, the second film from fledgling Chinese filmmaker Li Yang, demonstrates many of the same qualities that made his first, Blind Shaft, one of the most promising directorial debuts of recent years."
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77/100 |
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(2008) |
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"It must be noted that the movie demands some degree of resolve from its audience, and it promises no simple resolutions in return. This will trouble some, yet one can't call its rigorously factual approach dishonest or cheaply manipulative."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A demanding work of cinematic structuralism that eschews most of the conventions of both the war film and the biopic."
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76/100 |
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(2008) |
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"By frontloading the dramatic meat of the story, the film becomes less about shocking revelations or plot twists than the sometimes comic, sometimes serious dynamics of a family under extreme strain."
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54/100 |
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(2008) |
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"It's a strong testament to its crowd-pleasing nature that I'd begrudgingly recommend the movie in spite of its conceptual and ideological shortcomings."
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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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85/100 |
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(2008) |
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"It is a supreme achievement in its genre. It doesn't transcend its comic book origins, but rather faithfully represents them, wholly unembarrassed to deliver its story on its own terms."
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39/100 |
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(2008) |
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"It doesn't name its characters, hoping to make the story seem allegorical, or at least elemental, but the result is a movie that just makes itself hopelessly generic."
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