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(2009) |
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"The film conditions you to doubt, growing less suspenseful, less atmospheric, and less frightening as it progresses."
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(2009) |
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"The entire film possesses a certain longing, the sort that manifests itself and begins to grow at the moment of High School graduation, when some of the most formative circumstances of youth are remembered only as ephemeral moments."
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(2009) |
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"The film is more ambient than my description will convey, and it doesn’t feel scripted or directed in as much as it feels naturally funny and relaxed."
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(2009) |
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"The problem, once the plot devolves into desparate characters and their desperate actions, is that the characters engender no sympathy."
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(2009) |
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"The emotions at the core of each scene are sincere, and invariably true to the source."
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(2008) |
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"Because 21 subscribes to the allure of Vegas and not how it is infiltrated with logic and quantification, its details are subordinated in service to familiar cinematic protocol."
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(2008) |
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"Its horror isn't anticipated because there's nothing about these people that justifies harm; they're just people, not pawns. But this, as with perception of what sort of film this is, isn't ultimately certain."
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(2008) |
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"That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition."
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(2008) |
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"this film is about seeing Brad Pitt grow younger and handsomer until he becomes so young and handsome that it's a marvel equivalent to the launch of an Apollo rocket."
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(2008) |
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"Explicit Ills is a filmic tapestry, and it is a cohesive, fluid one."
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(2008) |
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"The Man from London, however comprehensible and demystified, is housed in a world of nonetheless pure, enveloping ambiance -- and it is by this measure that its merits are clearest."
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(2008) |
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"To purists and lovers of abstraction, challenge, and all things fringe, it may feel like a loss of authenticity. But to the larger mainstream audience, it simply makes art more accessible."
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(2008) |
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"A feeble, incidental continuation of his earlier films."
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(2008) |
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"A Necessary Death, despite its provocations, remains timid and dramatized, ultimately favoring plot machinations to considering the issue of suicide more deeply."
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(2008) |
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"It’s at times bold, intimate, unfunny, and discomforting, but it is never anything less than sincere."
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(2008) |
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(2008) |
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"Revolutionary advances have been made in racial equality, but in Mobile segregation - the most interpretable symptom of racism - has its last stronghold in Mardi Gras."
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(2008) |
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"It’s originality at the expense of comprehensibility."
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(2008) |
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"Transsiberian makes suspenseful and sometimes violent gestures, but it’s all decoration."
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(2007) |
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"Hannah Takes the Stairs decidedly lacks narrative and closure, but it works very well at moderating an environment of casual, if mundane, affairs."
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(2007) |
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"Appropriately, once the final credits roll, you’re likely to sit through them with an enhanced understanding of the typeface they’re in."
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(2007) |
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"A wholly and unexpectedly decent enterprise."
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(2007) |
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"[The subjects] may be a curious sort of renown, but by the end you are enraptured in their struggle to declare and maintain it."
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(2007) |
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"Because its central character is a meticulously architected dude, Knocked Up is a contrived male fantasy."
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(2007) |
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"It is as if [Frank] trashes the entire mechanism altogether, resulting in a spoonfed conclusion, rewarding facile expectations and violating the integrity of his film's well-established structure."
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(2007) |
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"Caine and Melnyk’s film is intent in questioning such legitimacies, which it does well; it’s just as propagandistic as a Michael Moore film, but not as entertaining."
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(2007) |
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(2007) |
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"The Ten has a meticulous rhythm and consistency, with aspects of early commandments informing the latter."
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(2007) |
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"It is a relaxing film to watch, austere and comforting in such a way that Zoo's aural components will become unexpectedly, uncommonly troubling."
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(2006) |
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"Idiocracy’s utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film’s obvious charms."
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(2005) |
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"What purpose there is in evaluating advertisements for their propensity as art favors how they exhibit the symptoms of inflation, capitalism, and ephemeral material trends better than any other contemporary recorded media."
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(2005) |
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"Despite its investment (it is the most expensive animé ever produced) and tried production (which began in 1995), Steamboy is an uncommonly disappointing effort."
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(2004) |
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(2004) |
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"Despite its languid, almost hypnotic pacing, The Brown Bunny is exalted with enormous suspense."
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(2004) |
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"Johnson Family Vacation affords the viewer a single offering of suspense in wondering just how the mode of transportation (a very souped-up Lincoln) will be destroyed."
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(2004) |
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(2004) |
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"One of the best science fiction films I have seen, and certainly as one of the genre's best in recent years."
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(2004) |
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(2004) |
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(2003) |
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"Gerry proposes simplicity; even the most capsulated descriptions of it are dubious."
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(2003) |
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"Even though its components may be familiar, it is made with precision and sophistication and is, by default, better than any original American horror film of the past few years."
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(2003) |
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"In this medium renowned for generic marketing integrity, Jonze’s work disenables such implicit dismissal."
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(2002) |
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"Brotherhood of the Wolf supplies enough to satisfy many tastes without overwhelming them. It is one of the most sporadically inspired films of recent memory; and I would say, prematurely, of all time."
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(2002) |
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"As an American propagandistic attempt to market patriotism (or courage, or honor), it is arguably successful; by its own merits it is merely decent."
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(2002) |
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(2002) |
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"It is a strength of a documentary to disregard available bias, especially as temptingly easy as it would have been with this premise."
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(2002) |
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"Mysterious Object at Noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness (which it inevitably lacks) but its construction. It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance and unique in its form."
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(2002) |
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"'Project Greenlight' is both a reality TV concept and lengthy Making-Of documentary, reducing the consequent film to this set’s preeminent special feature."
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(2001) |
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"A work of considerable ingenuity"
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(2001) |
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"A faithfully rendered head trip."
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