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(1952) |
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"For the average viewer, this early fifties RKO noir might seem a tad slow, even a bit dreary. But if you look closer, what you'll find is an unnerving study of inertia and the empty blandness of your average murderer."
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"The great jazz singer Anita O'Day operated in some far-out be-bop realm of her own."
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(1948) |
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"A handsome film, and a real keeper for fans of Vivien Leigh's unstable beauty."
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3/4 |
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(1948) |
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"This version of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, made A.G. (After Garbo), was not a success when it was first released, and it's still a failure now, but it's an often exquisitely sumptuous misfire, all the same."
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(2008) |
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"An unwieldy stab at an old-fashioned movie epic, Baz Luhrmann's Australia is corny, implausible, well intentioned and even somewhat enjoyable in its own way, at least for a while."
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(1956) |
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"The collision of Aldrich's tough style with the soapy material makes for a film that never loses its queasy tension."
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(1978) |
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"Ingmar says, "No." Ingrid says, "Yes." They're both right and both wrong, but it is Ingrid, in her last feature film performance, whose "Yes" carries more conviction and authority."
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(2007) |
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"Sometimes extreme physical beauty grows more complex, more satisfying with age; it's rare, but it happens."
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(2009) |
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"Varda turns the camera on herself and her own life, even though she convincingly posits that she's much more interested in other people."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A tart, observant look at the seductiveness of revenge and its generally empty aftertaste."
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(1932) |
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"King Vidor's Bird of Paradise puts the emphasis on flesh."
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(1977) |
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"Iffy but interesting early Pacino that rewards another look."
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2.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Pacino is at his best: precise, internal, magnetically cute, and expert at capturing the fear in this man's turtle-like existence and his longing for change."
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(1959) |
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"We can't really look at Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless with fresh eyes, any more than we can see Citizen Kane or Sunrise for the first time."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full."
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(1981) |
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"The much-loved television series of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited leaves a lot of puzzling questions"
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"An overwhelming set that will please the Berkeley fan and alarm others."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"What's missing here is the reason anyone would want to watch a film about Capote: his writing talent."
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(1931) |
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"The little-seen True Confession alone would be worth the money, let alone backed up by so many other rare titles."
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"An interesting set for Grant completists."
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(1966) |
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"The dueling image visual feast is endlessly stimulating, even if you don't take the requisite drugs beforehand."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Cheri strikes a jarring note right from the start."
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(1958) |
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"An unexpected and very valuable DVD."
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(1958) |
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"China Doll is a delicate, spare, old man's movie, with quiet attention to character detail."
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(2007) |
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"There are many reasons to see Chris & Don, but the best one I can think of is the chance to see Isherwood and his best friend W.H. Auden, probably the greatest poet of the twentieth century, jumping around together like middle-aged schoolboys in beguiling"
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(1944) |
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"Cover Girl is a mixed but colorful bag."
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(1977) |
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"A seamless story about memory and fantasy blurring together, Cría cuervos is unquestionably Carlos Saura's greatest film."
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(1957) |
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"This overlooked, subversive movie has a strong feminist message and an even stronger Stanwyck performance."
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(1947) |
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"Fairly recently, Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon has been starting to get some of the acclaim and attention it deserves."
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(1947) |
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"A great Preminger movie and a solid DVD overall."
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(1940) |
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"Dorothy Arzner's best film, Dance, Girl, Dance, spotlights women's inner worlds."
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3.5/4 |
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(1936) |
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"Desire is a most unusual and extremely fertile example of artistic cross-pollination between two very different auteurs: Frank Borzage and Ernst Lubitsch."
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(2006) |
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"Here is the stroke of an artist cutting through the narcissistic confusion around her, both shaming and enlivening this smooth but wafer-thin film."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This is just another male menopause movie, marred by unlikely dialogue and hokey theatrical symbolism."
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(1971) |
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"Essential for admirers of Jacques Demy, and that should be everybody."
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3.5/4 |
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(1971) |
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"There's plenty of disguised sex in Donkey Skin."
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(1944) |
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"A disappointing disc for a shallow but well-loved film."
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3/4 |
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(1944) |
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"An accepted classic and archetypal film noir, Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity is visually drab and flabby around the edges."
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(2008) |
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"Doubt doesn't work fully on screen as it did on stage, but it's worth seeing for Streep's grace notes."
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2.5/4 |
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(1955) |
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"If you turn the sound down on East of Eden (and, by all means, do), you'll see why Dean is a legend."
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(1955) |
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"Neurotic seesaw framing and James Dean's pyrotechnical debut cannot hide the fact that East of Eden's expiration date has passed."
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(2007) |
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"In Factory Girl, a jumbled account of the short life and photogenic hard times of the first Andy Warhol superstar, Edie Sedgwick, Sienna Miller makes Sedgwick into an archetypal over-confident blond with a mannered young Kathleen Turner croak."
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3/4 |
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(1976) |
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"It's a movie that's haunted by death, with lengthy sequences played out in cemeteries."
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(1976) |
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"A minor but worthwhile swan song for Hitchcock."
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4/4 |
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(1932) |
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"Cooper and Hays bring Borzage's liking for towering, vulnerable men and tiny, tough women to its visual apotheosis (her head barely reaches his armpit when they walk)."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Alexander Sokurov's obscure new film Father and Son doesn't quite come off."
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2/4 |
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(1963) |
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"To be frank, Fire Within devastated me when I saw it in college, but the unrelieved ennui that struck me as scrupulously honest and brave then looks one-note and aimless to me now."
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(1963) |
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"A heartfelt but unsuccessful film that could have been much better with a more variegated point of view."
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4/5 |
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(1963) |
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"Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures took the avant garde to a new level."
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3/4 |
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(1936) |
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"Burdened with a dull plot but blessed with a rousing Irving Berlin score."
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