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"Even as the camera follows Lorna, it never quite keeps up, though it's unclear whether she's eluding your interpretation or her own."
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"Paper Heart is increasingly focused on the tension between Cera and Yi's supposedly real romance and the camera's imposition of structure and self-consciousness."
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"The home video sets up A Perfect Getaway's frank understanding of itself as formula."
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"Julia Child's letters home are vivacious, illustrating her generosity and wit, her resolve and sense of humor."
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"The Goods' vulgarity is not new or clever or even comically shocking. It is, instead, prosaic and repetitive."
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"The question of her own "free will" niggles at the edges of Clare's experience throughout the movie named for her."
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"Knowing that you know the drill, Bandslam leaves out most too-explanatory details, and lets the kids be kidlike rather than movie-kidlike."
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"In District 9, racism provides the white guy with a very special growth experience."
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"As all of Shrink's seemingly disparate stories begin to fall too cleverly into each other, it's easy to be distracted by some fine performances."
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"Concerns about truth and untruth can't mean much in a movie called The Ugly Truth."
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"G-Force's dedication to egregious stereotypes is hackneyed and indefensible: this is how racism lives on."
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"It's not a bad idea for a horror movie, that the seeming victims are not innocent and their complicated past weighs on their present."
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"Even as it makes a show of complexity Fragments seems determined to pull together its various story strands."
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"Russell Mulcahy and other artists look back fondly on Australian exploitation films for Not Quite Hollywood, sometimes wondering just how they were able to get away with it."
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"In between the exciting sequences of the team setting up equipment and being nearly captured, The Cove includes interviews with persuasive sea life experts and not-so-convincing local Japanese authorities."
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"Throughout this compelling film, the assassins want to believe they're doing righteous work: they're fighting Nazi occupation forces, after all."
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"Full of ache and desire, Tae-ju seems the ultimate embodiment of the title of Park Chan-wook's new film, Thirst (Bakjwi)."
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"If it's rare to see sisters at the center of a smart, mature, and artful movie, it's even more surprising to see them so keenly in tune."
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"A complicated family dynamic is the point of departure for The Disappeared, part horror movie, part psychological study."
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"The Way We Get By stays focused on the greeters' mix of loneliness and determination, the pleasure of feeling needed and the pain of growing old."
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"In Off Jackson Avenue, Olivia is gutsy, shrewd, and fed up in a way that makes her look ripe for a Quentin Tarantino movie."
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"In The Beaches of Agnès, the "game" of cinema is endlessly fascinating, as what was and what can be come together on screen."
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"Chéri's saga of bad parenting ostensibly has to do with designs and rituals of love."
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"The gallant, educated, and sensitive outsider, will do right by Soraya, unlike the loathsome, fearful, and petty neighbors who killed her."
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"Sensational and turbulent, the relationship between John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis sold newspapers and attracted newsreel audiences. It was good for business."
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"Burma VJ articulates a circular, daunting, and inevitable logic: visibility = life."
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"In brief, stark moments, Duncan Jones' movie makes plain how awful it is to be so solitary, how utterly impossible it is to consider this existence a "living.""
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"Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is amiable and formally conventional, a portrait that doesn't mean to provoke, but to revere."
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"In Humpday, Andrew can't help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself."
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"Unable to parse what he sees, James finds meaning, at last, in his misreading."
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"Why anyone imagines children want to see Eddie Murphy's internal struggle may be the first question posed by Imagine That, but it's hardly the last"
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"As Food, Inc. shows, these pretty, red, genetically engineered tomatoes are signs of a dodgy future already here."
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"Nothing if not self-aware, this update of Joseph Sargent's 1974 thriller begins by rearranging the class dynamics."
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"This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode."
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"Whatever Works, a reported reworking of a 30-year-old script, is overtly old."
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"Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars."
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"It's only the start of Abu Laila's long, long day in Laila's Birthday (Eid milad Laila), and already, he's impatient."
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"Christine's monstrosity is hardly so daunting as that of the evil spirit stalking her, but it's of a piece with Drag Me to Hell's mostly vague cultural critique."
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"In Bruce McDonald's suitably weird zombie movie, the coin of the shock jock's own realm -- language -- is the source of all the trouble."
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"Kirby Dick's documentary argues that it's long past time that the many stories that shape closeted gay politicians' lives and careers be sorted out."
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"Only a few minutes into Rudo y Cursi, the brothers are discovered playing grand and gloriously boyish fútbol."
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"Julia is a mix of fantasy and tragedy, with the violence amped up and the background noisy and lurid."
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"The goldfish flopping in the sun is an image typical of Majid Majidi's films, fable-like and seemingly simple even as it is also complex."
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"Overrated as truth may be, in The Brothers Bloom, Penelope (Rachel Weisz) is supposed to signify it."
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"It's late in Terminator Salvation when Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-hyped non-appearance."
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"Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression."
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"So Yong Kim's remarkable film never spells out exactly what Jin or Bin is thinking, the camera implies how they see."
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"For all its attention to local "color", Fighting focuses on the white boy's progress."
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"Tyson is about the processes that make Mike Tyson."
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"The Soloist illustrates Nathaniel's internal life -- his music and his madness -- in reductive, sensational imagery."
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