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(1992) |
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"Not my cup of tea. I don't even like tea."
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2/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Say "Merchant-Ivory" to most cinephiles and watch their eyelids sag."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Given just how much material Kenny Ortega and his editors plowed through to whittle together a two-hour scrapbook and they still could only just barely come up with the presentable material here isn't exactly a vindication."
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(1937) |
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"Sure it's technically essential, but kids won't notice the stunning video presentation of Disney's Blu-ray release, and adults are referred to R.S. Gwynn's "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins.""
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2/4 |
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(1937) |
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"It is Snow White's afterbirth that merits both canonization and destruction."
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(1970) |
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"M*A*S*H is no Nashville. Hell, it may not even be O.C. & Stiggs. But for better or worse, it stands testament to the fact that at least one segment of the counterculture had no place for women."
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2/4 |
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(1970) |
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"A good dint lower than its reputation, more so if you look at it not as one of the seminal 1970s films but instead as the first chapter from the finest filmmaking career spent examining the American mystique."
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(1913) |
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"Whether you view them aesthetically or archaeologically, the films in Gaumont Treasures show a significant portion of cinema's formation."
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(1975) |
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"Own Jeanne Dielman if you must. Just don't fall asleep on her bed."
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(1980) |
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"Kurosawa's autumnal return to form is a tad too calculated to stand shoulder with Rashomon (or Ran), but Criterion's Blu-ray at least presents its pageantry in the best possible light."
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3/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Kagemusha, much like the similarly overblown but handsomely mounted Lawrence of Arabia, is an epic with a cipher in its point position."
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(1967) |
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"Jacques Tati's glorious film folly inches that much closer to the 70mm ideal in Criterion's new Blu-ray."
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4/4 |
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(1967) |
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"Sure, Tati's script may have been small, but there's such depth of content in each setup."
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(1984) |
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"Ghostbusters, whaddya want?!"
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3.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"The movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As insistently wry as it is haunting."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Birth of a Nation itself is a set of cinematic training wheels."
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(1961) |
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"Just lay back. This is going to happen."
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4/4 |
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(1961) |
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"The recurring attitude throughout most interpretations of Marienbad is that of sheer interpretation fatigue."
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(1989) |
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"As Mister Señor Love Daddy commands, "WAKE UP" to this absolutely essential home video."
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Like Rear Window to Alfred Hitchcock, like Nashville to Robert Altman, like Playtime to Jacques Tati, Lee's Do the Right Thing is an undiluted representation of its creator's artistic command."
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(1964) |
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"Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film's purity of essence."
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3.5/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Dr. Strangelove's status as the movie that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick's reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted."
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(1957) |
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"Bergman's most popular and studied film may not be his greatest artistic achievement, but Criterion's Blu-ray confirms its cinematic grandeur."
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2/4 |
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(1957) |
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"Swedish cinema titan Ingmar Bergman's mopey/earthy 1957 breakthrough The Seventh Seal may have done more than any other film to popularize and demonize the notion of world cinema as the boutique of the cultural intelligentsia."
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(1996) |
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"Fargo is the Coens' most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character."
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4/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Do you have to be a Minnesotan to really get Fargo?"
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(1977) |
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"In a just world, this movie would've been soundtracked with Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" and Diana Ross's "Love Hangover." So, in other words, the soundtrack to Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
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2/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Saturday Night Fever's heart is actually in the right place. It's ears, though? That's another story."
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(1976) |
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"The Booby Hatch makes me glad I didn't take John Russo's Making Movies too much too heart."
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1.5/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Russo and Streiner use their sex comedy to espouse the retrograde notion that the only fulfilling sexual position is one-man-one-woman missionary."
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(1986) |
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"The picture quality is a step up, but Paramount's production team clearly took the day off when it came time to bring Ferris Bueller to Blu-Ray."
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2.5/4 |
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(1986) |
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"One has to marvel at just how perfectly Hughes nails his frustratingly entitled mise-en-scène, which he unquestionably does in the film's mesmerizing detour inside an art museum."
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(2002) |
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"For a film that's almost strictly for the political and artistic converts, A Grin Without a Cat is a surprisingly forthright examination of how the left dropped the ball."
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A masterpiece among masterpieces, the two-part, three-hour A Grin Without a Cat is Chris Marker's most ambitious, clear-headed string of cinematic clauses and ideological couplets, and also his most impenetrable."
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(2007) |
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"If A Jihad for Love demonstrates the mountainous struggle Muslim homosexuals face daily, the bonus footage on the DVD reiterates that they're far from alone in having much work still to do."
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(1976) |
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"I believe the children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Or, conversely, you could violently yank a four-year-old boy's winkie and make him grow up begging to be choked unto orgasm. Your call."
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3.5/4 |
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(1976) |
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"To paraphrase a crack from Pauline Kael: light the incense, perverts."
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(1952) |
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"A white-knuckled introduction to the concept of action-movie existentialism, The Wages of Fear makes for a pummeling black-and-white Blu-Ray."
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3/4 |
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(1952) |
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"Now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fuelled thrill ride since."
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"Overproduced and guaranteed to disappoint all but those who have never bought a Hellraiser DVD to date, the Lament Configuration Box Set will likely only tear your wallet apart."
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2/4 |
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(1988) |
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"It's probably a stretch to surmise that, just as the first film's subtext dealt with health fears, the sequel mines its dread from the horror of malpractice."
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2.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Barker's vision cribs equally from the mythos of vampires and zombies, but Hellraiser's overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can't disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis."
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(2007) |
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"Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country's ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Serves as a fairly surface-oriented hagiography of a self-conscious rock star photographer."
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(1959) |
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"Criterion's Blu-Ray presentation of The 400 Blows isn't perfection, but it suggests there's a whole new world of black-and-white cinematography to be discovered in high-definition."
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4/4 |
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(1959) |
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"The 400 Blows, one of the initiating sparks of the French New Wave, ultimately boils down to the film's trendsetting coda, perhaps the most exclamatory question mark in movies."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"And what of New York's disco-era gays? They're written out of the story here just as decisively as they were written out of Levenson's version of utopia."
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(1970) |
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"Keep a copy of this DVD handy for when we're all living on the edge of sanity in a pile of trash down by the river."
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2.5/4 |
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(1970) |
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"Dodes'ka-den's forgotten souls enact their tribulations only in brief, impressionistic strokes, as apt to lapse into candy-coated reverie as they are to stare down the demons of fiscal and moral poverty."
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