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4/4 |
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(1960) |
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"one of those rare achievements that embodies an entirely new mode of film language"
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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4/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Destined to be one of the best, if not the best, of the year."
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3/5 |
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(1938) |
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3/5 |
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(1971) |
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3/4 |
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(1990) |
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"A tightly wound, explosive film that delivers more than is required."
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3/4 |
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(1966) |
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"clearly a product of the great neorealist director's hand, particularly in the way it emphasizes the small details of life that are often ignored in movies that are built around narrative or visual spectacle"
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3.5/4 |
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(1944) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1944) |
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"Les Dames has moments of subtle power that suggest the direction Bresson’s filmmaking aesthetic would eventually take; in fact, it was the last film he made in the traditional style before striking out completely on his own."
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4/4 |
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(1941) |
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"Preston Sturges' ode to romance as the greatest con game of all"
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4/4 |
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(1941) |
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1.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"More than anything, Lady in the Water is a work of great hubris--a jaw-dropping exercise in which a populist artist tests his audience's limits. Will they swallow this pill whole or spit it back only halfway down?"
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3.5/4 |
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(1938) |
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"both funny and intriguing in the way it develops its mystery and then strings it out into a web of espionage and deceit"
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3.5/4 |
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(1955) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1955) |
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"a wonderfully macabre comedy"
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It is worth watching just to see Hanks chewing into a juicy, throwaway comic role."
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1.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Half-serious and half-mocking, this film occupies a confused area where it isn't exactly sure what it is."
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The film falls apart."
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3/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Bresson's style may not be for everyone, but one has to respect his strength as an artist."
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2/5 |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"perhaps the movie isn't quite weird enough, so instead of seeming inspired in its dementedness, it just seems inept and desperate"
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"a disjointed adventure movie that has no place to go"
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"a jingoistic military action fantasy about the enduring power of what it means to be a soldier"
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Stilillman pulls off a unique balancing act of conveying the specificities of the cultural milieu but also maintaining a sense of universality that keeps the film from being solely about its time and place"
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3.5/5 |
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(1987) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"rectifies the original's bizarre tonal range, but also dilutes its thematic power by completely discarding the critical portrayal of vengeance as a zero-sum game"
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2.5/4 |
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(1972) |
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"a supremely schizophrenic movie, alternating awkward scenes of bad comedy with gruesome and unsettling moments of violence that reach a nasty level of documentary realism"
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2.5/4 |
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(1972) |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Director Kevin Macdonald brings his experience as documentary filmmaker to bear on the film, giving us a burnished portrait of Uganda's descent into hell that is heavy on location photography, handheld jerkiness, and zooms."
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"If the characters in The Last Kiss come across as a bit too whiny, it's not because they're too young, but rather because they're too self-inflated."
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3/5 |
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(1980) |
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3/4 |
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(1980) |
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"although not one of Truffaut's strongest works, it is nevertheless a striking and engaging film, one that reflects the great filmmaker's love of artistic creation and its role in maintaining humanity"
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The characters ultimately feel more like pawns to be manipulated, rather than flesh-and-blood human beings who suffer and love, which gives the film’s message that the two are essentially one in the same a rather hollow ring."
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3.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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4/4 |
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(1971) |
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"Ultimately, The Last Picture Show is remembered and probably always will be because it is truthful. It doesn't shy away from the inherent awkwardness of life, but instead embraces it as its subject matter."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"a deeply nostalgic and sentimental film, one that holds fast to the notion that there can be honorable warfare and that there is such a thing as a “good death”"
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The story has enough mystery and drama to keep the attention of any audience."
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3.5/4 |
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(1969) |
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"as disturbing as it is intriguing"
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3/4 |
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(1977) |
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"a unique film that bears the uneven, yet genuine, traces of a deeply felt work not entirely settled"
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3/4 |
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(1977) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1961) |
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"the elegant tracking shots amid the baroque architectural excesses that frame the film's lingering questions draw you into a world of mystery that seems to be ultimately understandable, yet constantly unravels at every turn"
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3.5/5 |
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(1961) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"a blistering (and often funny) critique of conservative family traditionalism intruding on the realm of romantic love"
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4/5 |
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(1949) |
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4/5 |
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(1949) |
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"Ozu's camera is observational, rather than intrusive; even when we get something akin to a close-up, it never feels like it's invading the character's space."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"falls consistently flat, despite the best efforts by all involved"
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