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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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The House Next Door |
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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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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There's almost no conflict in either of the stories presented in Julie & Julia, and though this is preferable to contrived conflict, it still leaves us with a rather overlong, lovey-dovey picture."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The buried themes in James Gray's fourth film, Two Lovers, slowly emerge from its accumulation of quotidian, seemingly small details."
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(2008) |
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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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2/4 |
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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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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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2.5/4 |
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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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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This film version of Mamma Mia! is such a full-scale disaster in every way that it's hard to know what has held theatergoers' attention for so long."
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(2008) |
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"A paint-by numbers biopic of the tireless activist that wastes the efforts of some fine actors."
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The House Next Door |
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(2008) |
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"Revolutionary Road is not a great film, per se; a great film needs the stamp of a great director. But it is a great film of this great book."
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The House Next Door |
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(2008) |
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"Balibar's sly mouth tightens with mean glee as she plays all the Duchesses' games, and Depardieu's brooding, battered face ceaselessly signals the General's suppressed, sexualized violence."
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(2008) |
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"Téchiné films Johan Libéreau, who plays Manu, the fresh-faced young boy coming of age in The Witnesses, with the sort of discretion that gives mystery and dignity to human beauty."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The original version of The Women, shrill and campy as it can be, is miles ahead of this remake when it comes to issues of class and social maneuvering."
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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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(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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(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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The House Next Door |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Edith Piaf's tidal emotional vulgarity and brutish commitment to the most sentimental chansons is captured accurately and even irresistibly in La Vie En Rose."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One more dip into the tin-eared neo-noir well."
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(2007) |
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"Most critics have approached Werner Herzog's latest film Rescue Dawn with qualifying kid gloves, as if it would be impolite to question a late work from such a grand old man of the seventies German New Wave."
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(2007) |
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"Eric Rohmer has said that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is probably his swan song, and he's not pulling any punches here."
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(2007) |
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"Filming a major Broadway musical has always been trouble for moviemakers; none of them seem to work."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"We Own the Night confirms James Gray's position as a major American film director."
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2.5/4 |
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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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(2006) |
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"For Your Consideration might indeed be a bridge too far for the Guest troupe, but seeing it makes you want to liberate his inventive women for other projects"
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In what seems like a sequel to Birth, we are treated to endless silent close-ups of Kidman's hard, porcelain face struggling to signal girlish repression and longing for release."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Infamous is a film about flashy facades and what lies beneath them."
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(2006) |
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"David Lynch's Inland Empire, which runs 172 minutes, keeps collapsing in on itself."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"En every way an exemplary children's film, but it's much more than that: at its best, it resembles the gently whimsical Ealing comedies of the '50s."
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0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The sound recording is hollow and muddy, the cinematography underlit and sometimes blurred at the edges, and the whole thing has the dreary feeling of a bottom-of-the-barrel, clammy '70s sex comedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"It is obviously the film of a master and certainly feels like a swan song."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ham-fisted, maddeningly overwritten, and about as subtle as a jackhammer."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A cleverly written but somewhat muffled paean to sensual appetite."
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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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(2005) |
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"Forty Shades of Blue is wonderfully unconventional, truthful and touching."
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The script can't even get from A to B without the seams showing."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A minor romantic comedy with a pseudo-indie feel."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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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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ToxicUniverse.com |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Glick, alas, has run out of gas.
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(2004) |
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"The Coen Brothers remake of The Ladykillers is a half-baked mess."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(2004) |
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"Jean-Luc Godard has another movie out...and we all know what that means."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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