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(2002) |
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"Without preaching, pretension or ingenuousness, this documentary depicts the very real darkness of lives beyond nightly TV News or self-congratulatory Special Projects."
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(2004) |
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"The film's outlandishly involuted story fuses melodrama, romanticism and noir."
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(2001) |
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"Will leave audiences puzzled and then cold."
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(2005) |
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"Faint clues and indirections fly all over the film and, although perhaps unintentional, cry for clarification which never comes."
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(2002) |
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"A finely done, enjoyable stock market mystery."
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(2006) |
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"A riveting work for anyone interested in how filmmaking devices can be used to make the whole greater than the sum of its individual parts.
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(1966) |
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"'The Battle of Algiers' serves potent warning to those who envision warfare, or any Western-dictated settlement, in areas so hungry and so foreign."
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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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(2002) |
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"A flawed but effective dark parable of loneliness and love."
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(2005) |
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"One cannot help but be in this winning champion's corner."
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(2007) |
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"One can appreciate 'Becoming Jane' without knowing anything about the writings of Jane Austen or the speculation about her hidden life."
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(2004) |
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"Features beguiling performances and a heart that most anyone can relate to."
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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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(2004) |
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"Unobtrusive, tasteful direction and music, along with retro-dark photography and a quietly good cast, keep this film above may others of its ilk."
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(2003) |
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"Beyond fresh faces and nice color work, there is little but surface here, only another perky girl movie."
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(2008) |
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"Parts look as though taken by actors, until one realizes that these are the same real people over years, heavier or thinner, baby-faced or mature."
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(2007) |
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"Honest and moving, 'Beyond the Gates' is the best film to date about the slaughter of a million and displacement of hundreds of thousands in Africa."
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(1980) |
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"The splendid reconstructed version of this 1980 film is bigger and better than the original."
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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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"An encouraging start here is ruined by a long, and routine, finish."
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(1958) |
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"Dated in its sentimentality but timeless in splendor.
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(2007) |
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"Broad humor, including "sheep-shagging" and other puns, lifts this predictable B-movie a shade above the inanity of most of its recent brethren."
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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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(2006) |
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"The film lacks a sympathetic character even in its eternally petulant child protagonist and is lax in differentiating who's who."
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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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(2009) |
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"Boys in the audience may groan indulgently, but their dates ought to squeal with delighted pride."
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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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(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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(2003) |
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"Judging a genre totally foreign to one's sensibilities is difficult and unfair, especially when the acting is amateurish, the humor forced, and the dialogue painfully flat."
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(2006) |
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"Just so much mileage can be squeezed from repeated gestures, wavy two-lane roads, shots through spattered windshields, and faces so framed as to be cut off above the hairline."
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(2004) |
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"As much a plea as a movie, 'Born into Brothels' moves one deeply."
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(1997) |
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"A straightforward story -- but nothing admirable here, no good people, no point."
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(2008) |
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"A tale older than Scripture and as today as war and genocide, this different Holocaust film contrasts love to hatred, good to evil, children to adults."
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(2005) |
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"Initially off-putting in mannerism, Cillian Murphy's 'Kitten' ropes the viewer in for the long, arduous haul."
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(1959) |
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"A half-century has softened the impact, but 'Breathless' still holds its own."
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(2005) |
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"Although more winning than anticpated, this colorful film suffers from vapid acting and trite characters."
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(1955) |
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"'The Bridges at Toko-Ri' is still a vehicle for the quiet determination of character that once placed William Holden among the brightest of stars."
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(2007) |
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"Parker Posey is game in 'Broken English,' although the limited conception of her giggly insecure Nora Wilder is too thin for ninety-six minutes."
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(2006) |
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"'Brothers of the Head' digs especially hard at the manipulative circus nature of packaging culture and hysteria for the consuming younger set."
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(2004) |
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"A journey is inarticulate, and aside from baggage and loneliness, so are the film's characters."
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(2003) |
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"Whimsicalness, irony, and gentle good humor carry the day."
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(2004) |
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"A rare unfolding of the man behind the image."
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(2008) |
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"This parody from the Coen Brothers is merely easy cynicism."
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