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(2005) |
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"Captures the feel of a relatively uncomplicated era and draws us into another impossible dream."
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(2005) |
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"This is 'Scenes from a Marriage' thirty years later."
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(2002) |
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"A celebration of unintellectualized joy and the discovery of life."
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(2007) |
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"Too much of the film involves set pieces of two characters' awkward dialogue or a single one's halting monologue-confession about life problems."
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(2004) |
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"Too many twists, turns, false solutions, implausibilities and impossibilities."
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(2005) |
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"Six weeks' filming, some auspicious debuts, and an un-noisy satisfying gem."
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(2006) |
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"Certain important omissions do not detract from the fervent message of 'Screamers,' but what is left in the end is screed, as opposed to film."
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(2004) |
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"Generally avoids sentimentality and celebrates the spiritual strength of the individual."
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(2001) |
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"Exhibits a sense of life's tragic confines alternating with mischievous wit."
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(2005) |
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"Grim at times but almost always humorous, and with sympathy for backwoods, backwaters and their inhabitants, singer-songwriter Jim White is an illuminating Stage Manager."
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(2002) |
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"Not among the best documentaries of its genre."
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(2003) |
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"It's difficult to describe 'September 11,' but we probably won't find a more comprehensive reaction to the tragic event for a considerable time to come."
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(2007) |
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"Less verifiable than implied, 'September Dawn' nevertheless does raise relevant questions of intolerance, fanaticism and individual responsibility."
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(2003) |
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"7 Year Zig Zag is experimental, more celebratory than story, and taken as such -- fun."
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(1998) |
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"A vignette, really, a couple of days in a boy%u06E5s life recollected in tranquillity."
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(1999) |
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"A colorful hip updating of the two-on-the-lam motif popular since the 1930s."
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(2003) |
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"Unspectacularly effective and provocative, Shattered Glass successfully dramatizes individual dilemma that carries over into major social implications."
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(2005) |
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"Showy technique replaces subtlety and would-be depth is absent."
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(1946) |
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"One of the classic movies pairing suave gaunt Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and plump Nigel Bruce as his bumbling Boswell, Dr. Watson."
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(1985) |
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"'Shoah' is difficult to watch, but few other films match its consideration of unspeakable evil and indifference."
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(2003) |
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"Benazzo and Day can only scratch a monumental, perhaps impossible, surface, but their effort is a worthy introduction to what is more than a single life’s task."
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(2005) |
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"A quality documentary by courageous filmmakers."
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(2004) |
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"His political and social position will find favor among the chorus, but 'Silver City' is not among John Sayles' more successful efforts."
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(2009) |
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"'Sin Nombre' is informative and gripping in story and technique."
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(2006) |
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"Not stooping to cheap sensationalism, 'Sisters in Law' dignifies an Africa -- particularly its women -- elsewhere often shown as hopeless."
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(2007) |
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"Using handheld cameras throughout, 'The Situation' draws the eye down into the human pieces that will one day make up history-book summaries."
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(2002) |
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"Beautiful in its stark way."
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(2004) |
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"Obvious and trite."
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(2008) |
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"The film does an excellent job projecting suspense among all castes gathered in front of television sets while watching a popular quiz show in India."
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(2002) |
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"A surprisingly sweet film experience."
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(2006) |
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"Motivation is never allowed to develop."
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(2005) |
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"As ideas are shot back and forth, 'Sophie Scholl' becomes an admirable, but not entirely successful, morality play.
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(2006) |
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"Far from the advertised 'anxiety of a city on edge,' this film does no more than sketch a sorry woman"
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(1937) |
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"A lion's share of the fault lies in the narration, the kind of one-sided screen advocacy journalism that has resurfaced in contemporary non-fictions and based-ons."
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(2003) |
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"It's not clear whether the film's uneasy ambiguity is intentional or merely the result of pretension or lact of artistic control."
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(2008) |
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"To be fair to those embarrassed onscreen in 'The Spirit,' this movie's dialogue would tax the thespian talents of anyone."
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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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"'Stalags' refuses to confront firmly the fine line at which individual or collective memory cannot distinguish myth from reality."
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(1993) |
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"What must ultimately emerge is admiration for human courage balanced with horror at what Melville's 'Ah humanity' can do."
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(2002) |
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"Chilling in its objective portrait of dreary, lost twenty-first century America."
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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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(2003) |
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"Too choppy and non-continuous."
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(2005) |
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"The film never decides where it wants to go."
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(2006) |
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"'Stoned' is good cinema but suffers because of the nature of its own subject."
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(2002) |
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"The quest-journey is weighted with self-conscious but empty lines, and so deliberate is the pacing that the actors seem to have drifted off as well."
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(2004) |
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"Stately and slow, the human and animal protagonists win us over in this plainspoken, non-manipulative film."
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(2008) |
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"Film festival awards and media encomiums notwithstanding, 'Stranded' does not come to grips with what we think of as 'miracle.'"
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(2007) |
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"Debatable as history, 'Strike' sets its camera eye on the underplayed "secular saints" who contribute to that history."
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(1954) |
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"The film is promising and wonderful, needing only a very few minutes' editing down."
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(2003) |
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"The film is promising and wonderful, needing maybe only a few minutes' editing down."
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