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"The film's frequent long takes are painful both on the eye and on the plot."
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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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"While the resolution is predictable and easy, this does not detract from the pleasurable feelings generated by 'Camp.'"
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"A 'little film' about loneliess and the difficult ability to love and to trust --but at the same time more universal than the shifting tide of nations' concerns."
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(2005) |
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"Schmaltz -- which is not to say it doesn't have disarming charm, for those who like this sort of thing."
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(2005) |
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"At the center of this treatment as well as its human subject, there is a coldness around the heart."
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(2008) |
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"Soviet lives are uncomfortable to watch here but as compelling as Richard Widmark's début in 'Kiss of Death' or Tarantino's more graphic one with 'Reservoir Dogs.'"
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(2006) |
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"Moving along with an unhurried pace, this attractive film presents a picture of sweetest life near the bone."
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(2008) |
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"'Changeling' sticks to what was, and is, ugly and real but does not do justice to the nightmare."
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(2006) |
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"Hardly at their charismatic best, the two unquestionably international stars, however, are the raison d'etre for the film."
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(2005) |
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"Firmly among the most graphically violent, bloody movies yet made."
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(2003) |
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(2002) |
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"'Charlotte Sometimes' elicits no more than restlessness."
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(2008) |
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"'Che' fails to image a being of flesh who elicits empathy."
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(2008) |
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"'Che' fails to image a being of flesh who elicits empathy. Combat is more Old West shootout than war-movie, but there is still none of the alleged depth to preface what follows."
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(2002) |
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"As close a merge as you're likely to see of the force of living musical with the unique possibility of celluloid"
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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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"Too much flat love interest, too much love triangle, and three stock-character grown-ups are in the end too much baggage for 'The Children of Huang Shi.'"
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(2008) |
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"'A Christmas Tale' finds time for bits that have no reason but strike home as true."
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(2008) |
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"The plotline of 'Ciao' is trite -- and the filmmaking itself drags."
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"The two men's personalities, an out-of-the-ordinary setting and time, and camera techniques deftly used bring this quiet piece above the pack.
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(2005) |
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(2004) |
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"A positive plea for the sane middle ground amidst the insistence of extremism."
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(2006) |
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"Olivier Assayas' 'Clean' is in its way beguiling, once you survive its churning, narrow depth-of-field surface."
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(2006) |
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"'Climates' is an emotionally true and devastating rendering of love gone stale."
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(2006) |
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"One worrisome aspect here is the absence of any condemnation of self or substance on the part of the three principal participant-interviewees."
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(2004) |
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"This Code doesn't work. Its many story and cinematography tics are repetitious, and the whole film just does not take off."
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(2004) |
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"'Collateral' is Tom Cruise's movie, and he and it are impressive."
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(2004) |
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"Intelligently organizes its facts."
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(2004) |
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"This controversial thriller does not go beyond polemic."
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(2005) |
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"Human indignation and social intent run throughout, and the heart is in the right place, but that does not spark the creature to life.
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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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(2003) |
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"A rare and convincing chemistry emerges here between William H. Macy's sad-sack character and Maria Bello's wannabe showgirl-cocktail waitress."
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(2004) |
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"Abrupt cuts and reversals, repetition of jokes, and limp dialogue conspire against anyone’s caring about the characters or their movie."
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(2002) |
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"'Crazy as Hell' leaves viewers with something to think about after the screen goes dead and the house-lights come on."
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(2004) |
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"Here is a pressing tale to be told, but the film misses it in neglecting a cardinal rule that story needs to engage and inform and that something must happen."
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(2005) |
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"Goes beyond both the fashionable serial-killer thriller and the equally current consideration of oxymoronic media morality."
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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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(2007) |
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"The legwork research here is impressive... with interviewees on whatever side eloquent and sometimes surprisingly humorous about the past."
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(2004) |
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"Despite its clumsy, unenlightening interviews, this documentary does convey the infectious felt rhythms of Cuba."
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(2006) |
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"The physical battles are stirring here, but the heart really beats in décor and costuming and in serpentine plotting out of Renaissance 'Blood Theater.'"
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