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(2008) |
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"The wackiness of this elaborate, not entirely tongue-in-cheek film, makes for wonder-filled moviegoing."
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(2007) |
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"There's food for thought in 'Naming Number Two,' but staginess in conception and acting, bad pacing, and triteness are together too much to overcome."
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(2008) |
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"Ignore puff and nonsense about kung fu philosophy...and enjoy 'The Forbidden Kingdom' for the youth-oriented wish fulfillment that it is."
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(2008) |
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"Although honest and earnest, 'Constantine's Sword' illustrates the rut the burgeoning genre has fallen into. The message is clear, but the medium is muddled."
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(1962) |
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"One of the master director's most concentrated and unambiguous works."
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(2008) |
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"'Stalags' refuses to confront firmly the fine line at which individual or collective memory cannot distinguish myth from reality."
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(2008) |
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"No one can fail to be moved and saddened by 'Body of War' and its picture behind the doors that hide forgotten ignored heroes."
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(2008) |
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"Some will read something deeper here, while others will find sweet caprice...but nothing would have been lost if the balloon had fallen to a cutting room floor."
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(2008) |
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"Its seventy-eight minutes are dense and resonant, a weave of stories related by theme, plot and beachfront location."
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(2008) |
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"Spreading its net too wide, this documentary lacks the smallest counterbalance, so one is not allowed a roundly informed decision. ."
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(2008) |
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"Much takes place offstage in 'Meat Loaf,' so there are few seconds wasted on the de rigueur ecstasy of audiences older than rockumentary adolescents."
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(2008) |
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"Refreshingly, 'Sputnik Mania' stands back and allows its tale to be told in memorable actuality footage backed with unobtrusive period music."
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(2008) |
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"That standby blurb...'inspiring,' more often than not means 'fluff,' but 'Blindsight' happens to pull off one of those rare inspirational experiences."
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(2006) |
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"While the preaching is to the converted, the sheer organization, massing and clarity appear conclusive, and the youngish onscreen attendees nod in agreement."
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(2008) |
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"Lacks even the confidence to let speak for themselves the images of police and national guardsmen clubbing unarmed American demonstrators."
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(2008) |
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"Playful but more thoughtful -- too obviously so -- than most other stalker slashers, 'Diary of the Dead' ratchets up its own punditry."
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(2008) |
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"Jeanne Balibar is radiant in Antoinette's deception and self-deception that speak of and to all lovers, male as well as female."
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(2007) |
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"'Ezra' moves, and is smart enough not to endorse empty enthusiasms or slogans."
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(2008) |
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"'In Bruges' discloses nothing that is not at once discernible and, even with new wrinkles, does not measure up against better caper-gone-awry works."
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(2007) |
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"Alas...the lady comes across here as a simple-minded girl instead of an achingly vulnerable woman of possibilities."
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(1925) |
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"Packs so much eye-and-heart power that its abrupt ending seems to come hard on the opening rather than an hour-and-a-third later."
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(2008) |
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"Some day, a thought-out cyberkiller movie is bound to come along. Wait, for 'Untraceable'is not it."
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(2008) |
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"The 15 numbers inluded in 'U2 3D' are as close as the flat screen can get to 'the palpable thrill of actually being at a U2 concert.'"
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"'The Man in the Shadows' is an admirable and uniquely organized documentary about Val Lewton and his brooding works of darkness."
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(2007) |
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"Starting out like goofy comedy tinged with a police show, 'Look' soon shows its capable colors. Implications are there to be read, frightening or reassuring."
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(2007) |
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"The movie slides downhill after its fine portrayal of childhood bonds and cowardice in Afghanistan twenty-six years in the past."
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(1949) |
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"'Bitter Rice'-- a film that initiated a change in direction for a big national player in world cinema -- holds up enough after all these years."
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(2007) |
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"A tribute to a handful of racial and cultural foreigners and to the Chinese people, 'Nanking' is inspiring... but it can depress in the extreme."
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(2007) |
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"Jessica Yu's 'Protagonist' is bravely conceived, but the subject is of itself static, or at least treated so."
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(1965) |
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"Pier Paolo Pasolini benefited from the very austerity that underlies the particular and at the same time universal center of this film."
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(1968) |
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"Seldom have so many pundit parses and public praises owed so much to so little as in the case of the career-launching 'Night of the Living Dead.'"
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(2007) |
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"Each moment in 'Steal a Pencil for Me' is a witness to the power of people, the will to live and to love."
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(2007) |
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"The almost amateur impression of 'Holly' allows for emphasis on what this urgent tale is about, rather than on any neat, packaged film-ness."
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(1981) |
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"What makes 'Diva' memorable, is the sheer fun, fun, fun of the whole, with its sly homage to directors, styles and genres."
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(2007) |
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"The love and craft that went into Jia's earlier films are also apparent in 'Useless,' but exactly what he is saying, is not."
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(2007) |
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"'Calle Santa Fe' loses a center, goes in too many directions at too great length."
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(2008) |
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"This talky, heavy melodrama is pretty to look at, but behind it there is nothing of substance"
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(2007) |
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"'The Other Side of the Mirror' charms from start to finish with the simplicity -- or innocence -- of the Sixties."
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(2007) |
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"The most unexpected external fact about 'I'm Not There' is that Todd Haynes got Bob Dylan's permission for this film."
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(2007) |
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"Twisting too many specious screws too often, 'The Orphanage' is not innovative, though its atmospheric setting and the performance of Belen Rueda are impressive."
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(2007) |
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"'Redacted' is effective in atmosphere and in making a point, obvious as that is."
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(1982) |
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"If the total cinema package does not hit one over the head, it nevertheless provides more food for thought this time around."
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(2007) |
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"Setting and wardrobe are relatively simple but immaculate. Less complication would have benefited the film, but perhaps the (female) heart is unknowable."
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(2007) |
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"With a turn or so too many of the screw, cast and crew make the dramatic events depicted in 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead' believable."
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(2007) |
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"If the outcome is foreseeable and the film overstays itself a little even at 91 minutes, the pilgrimage is commendable though not enlightening."
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(2007) |
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"What can ever be known of the real Chris McCandless is well served on-screen in 'Into the Wild.'"
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(2007) |
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"Sparse special effects are pretty hokey, and the plot is nothing new, rehashing as it does scores of sci-fi-slash-horror films over many years."
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(2007) |
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"With a charming quality, 'Antonia' avoids the triteness of many music films that touch on triumph, heartbreak, decline, and then a new, determined start."
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(2007) |
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"Those old enough to remember optimism and expectancy, and to retain the child's wonder at the authentic universe, will find inspiration here."
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(1980) |
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"'Cruising' views better today than in 1980, but that is relative. There remain bothersome errors in consistency and judgment."
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