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(2006) |
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"'13' has no facile moralizing or preachiness, and that objectivity -- reinforced by daring technique -- makes for an absorbing film."
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(2005) |
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"Chronicles the inspirational adventure of a remarkable man."
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(1957) |
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"The enjoyment here that outweighs the film's derivativeness comes in the dialogue and relationship developed between outlaw and rancher."
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(2006) |
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"...suggestively arresting in strange ways that will attract cinephiles and fuel unanswerable discussion.
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(2003) |
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"This documentary should be required of students, politicians, developers, and planners."
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(2009) |
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"Soul is what distinguished man from brute, and 9 and his appealing cohorts have that in abundance."
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(2005) |
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"Winterbottom serves up Swinburne's "sexless orgies," passion without a trace of passion."
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(2007) |
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"Details a Japanese cause célèbre with ramifications for Pacific Rim Asia and, today, for world politics at the highest levels."
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(2008) |
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"Jeff Goldblum transforms even his lanky befuddlement into tall dignity here and ends up giving the intellectually mature performance of his career."
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(2009) |
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"Fascinating, 'Afghan Star' pictures the familiar dropped into a totally foreign context distanced even more by recent and continuing bloody strife."
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(2003) |
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"Told what to think, the viewer is distanced by film acknowleging its film-ness."
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(1979) |
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"It scares us despite our knowing what is coming."
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(2009) |
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"'Alien Trespass' is neither soulless nor bad. Yet it does not improve on the sources that inspire it, so why not watch them instead?"
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(2003) |
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"Terrific filmmaking that plays at the level of instinct and emotion."
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(2000) |
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"Vastly moving."
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(2002) |
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"The filmmakers do not flinch in the face of emotions almost too great to watch."
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(2006) |
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"'American Gun' takes the wise step of looking not at a particular school massacre, but at those intimately affected."
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(2009) |
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"No suspense is developed, and low-income housing and women's house of detention alike are prettied up without any feeling for gritty reality."
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(2003) |
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"Fluff love."
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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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(2005) |
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"A predictable comedy-of-errors picture of self-inflicted misunderstanding."
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(1959) |
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"Although dubbed a 'tone poem,' it is better to consider 'Araya' as visual biblical parable, an artfully artless triptych built on sacred-mystical threes."
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(2007) |
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"'Arctic Tale,' a cuddly family film touching on the dangers of claw and fang, contains a global warming caution. Without whining its alarm, the movie quietly incorporates it."
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(1969) |
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"Not a bad effort -- but filled with credibility gaps and much in need of tightening."
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(2004) |
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"Michael Caine and Christopher Walken, as father & son, do marvels with silences, spaces and gestures while skirting loveable old codger stereotypes."
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(2005) |
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"Whereas good noir dialogue has a biting, sardonic edge, here the self-conscious literary-ness falls flat and foolish."
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(2004) |
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"Prescient like the overlooked 'The Siege,' this film moves us with the roots of unpleasant realities."
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(2006) |
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"Predictable but not preachy, its likeable types quirky and familiar, 'Aurora Borealis' is a good if undemanding watch."
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(2003) |
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"A wry, tender embrace of ageing and loving, dying and living, to the fullest, as best one can."
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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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