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(1961) |
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"So long as Disney's never made any bones about finding the whole female race either bland or evil, I have no trouble embracing the studio's biggest bitch of them all."
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3.5/4 |
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(1961) |
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"Cruella De Vil is so much a tour de force that she single-handedly snatches the movie away from any retroactive comparisons to post-classical Disney features whose sloppiness is the is their only saving grace."
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(2002) |
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"Winterbottom’s film didn’t exactly win him any new fans at Cannes last summer, but on DVD 24 Hour Party People is a cult favorite in-the-making."
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(2002) |
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"A light and playful look at the Manchester music scene which spans from the punk explosion to the dawn of acid house."
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4/4 |
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(1977) |
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"3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off."
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(1977) |
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"Apparently, Robert “Hot Lips” Altman was ready to be reborn as Maya Deren.
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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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(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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(1941) |
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"While narrowly focused and lacking the flights of fancy that mark The Archers' enduring classics, 49th Parallel is still in tune with the miraculous."
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(1941) |
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"While it might not seem so on the surface to those weaned on Why We Fight and, conversely, The Eternal Jew, 49th Parallel is wholly valid as propaganda."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Its deadly punchlines suggest the archetypal “cosmic joke” with more emphasis on the tragic side of the tragedy-comedy continuum.
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A downward spiral of destitution...like a soul jogging in place in Purgatory."
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(1962) |
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"Advise and Consent's near-mathematical approach to political intrigue is a great argument in favor of big government."
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(1962) |
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"Preminger's visual savvy turns that most staid and insufferable of social terrariums, the floor of the U.S. Senate, into a vibrant, perpetually shifting Voronoi diagram."
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(1985) |
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"The back of the box calls the film a “Chinese puzzle.” Are they sure they didn’t mean “Chinese Water Torture?”"
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2.5/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria."
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(1999) |
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"Six years after it attempted to bring gay rights to an uplifting, if bittersweet denouement, the Bush years have now given After Stonewall its sense of urgency."
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"“Lesbians! We’re everywhere! Lesbiana! Yo soy lesbiana!”
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3/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Sustains a single premise for its entire running time, and does so without lagging or going limp."
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(1980) |
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"Once the film's fanatics find out that the "Don't Call Me Shirley" edition of Airplane! is mostly a gussied-up replay of the previous edition, the ****'ll really hit the fan."
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(1951) |
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"Did we mention that Carol Channing’s performance in Through the Looking Glass is one of the three or four greatest performances ever caught on film?"
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2.5/4 |
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(1951) |
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"Disney was and is a studio with an impenetrably inflated sense of quality control."
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(1979) |
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"All That Jazz manages an act of alchemy as it exudes the foul miasma of flop sweat at the same time as it showcases Fosse’s consummate cinematic talents."
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(1979) |
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"All That Jazz may be Fosse’s finest cinematic achievement."
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2.5/4 |
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(1965) |
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"Drenched with Metzger's penchant for self-reflective wit."
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(2003) |
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"Though such elements might chip away somewhat at Amen’s seriousness of intent, they do add fire to the stimulating drama."
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(2003) |
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"Costa-Gavras walks a fine line between portraying the soulless social allowances and ignorance that allowed the Holocaust to happen, and exploiting them for dramatic punch."
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(2004) |
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"More than you ever wanted to know about the vagina, which isn’t good enough for Catherine Breillat."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The ultimate lesson being taught isn’t how homosexuality can be transposed to kinky hetero sex games."
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4/4 |
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(1970) |
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"Morrissey's films provided a more welcoming stage for bona fide superstar performances than many of Warhol's own movies."
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(1991) |
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"Undoubtedly careful, tasteful filmmaking. But, then again, Janet Frame's writing could also be described as careful and tasteful."
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(1991) |
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"Campion's knack for solitary yet paradoxically epic scope nibbles off Laura Jones's bite-sized scene-sketches of loneliness and makes entire meals of them."
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(1929) |
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"Still recovering from Ellen Burstyn’s Sara Goldfarb? See her cinematic grandmother’s career as a hoochy-koochy derail itself right into a bottle of poison."
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(1929) |
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"Even more impressive was its (pre-Freaks) sympathetic portrayal of a shunned community in all its self-contained, lip-biting game-face pride."
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(1970) |
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"The Aristocats is not jazz."
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3/4 |
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(1929) |
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"A tranquil nocturne when compared to the scherzo standards of German expressionism."
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(1980) |
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"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is in that thankfully small sub-genre of film I like to call “frat guy camp.""
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(1966) |
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"Vera Drake is a common street **** compared to Balthazar."
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4/4 |
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(1966) |
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"The lens of dispassion Bresson invites us to look through during Balthazar embodies "a prayer which slips into life without interrupting it."
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(1962) |
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"An Autumn Afternoon examines disappointment, loneliness and isolation, but Ozu's final film is less a tragedy than it is a miracle of bemused resignation."
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4/4 |
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(1962) |
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"What do all these subtle modifications to the otherwise similar template suggest?"
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(1921) |
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"A comprehensive compendium of proofs to the adage that the medium of cinema was an entirely different beast before the advent of, as per Norma Desmond, "talk, talk, talk.""
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3.5/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Probably the most carefully-scripted blockbuster in Hollywood history."
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(1985) |
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"Back to the Future defies the laws of physics (and its own cracked view of the past). It's one of the rare big-budget entertainments that's improved with time."
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(1989) |
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"For anyone who ever wanted to see Michael J. Fox playing Tracey Ullman, there's Back to the Future Part II."
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(1990) |
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"Doc Brown's threatened time paradox is no match for the final installment's dreary life lessons."
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(1956) |
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"Here's a movie that suggests cute, precocious pre-pubescent blonde girls should get psychological counseling. Are you listening, Dakota Fanning's mother?"
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2.5/4 |
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(1956) |
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"The Bad Seed reflects Slant Magazine’s blind, abject terror of precocious, well-behaved little blonde girls."
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(1942) |
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"Bambi’s friend Thumper teaches him how to flip a bird but leaves his poor apprentice high and dry when it comes to the art of **** like a bunny."
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(2009) |
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"As insistently wry as it is haunting."
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