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"An excoriating and revelatory experience, scrubbing away yet another layer of skin from the image that the director has created for himself."
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(1959) |
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"Ray's portrait of Inuit life in the atomic age, and as with all of his later work, a curious blend of melodrama and pseudo-documentary"
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(1953) |
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(1976) |
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"Shot in an unforgiving documentary style, with only the sporadic use of an unsettling modernist score, the film calls not for radical social change but for contemplation."
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"Even as the film piles awkwardness and suffering upon its character, it never feels exploitative or emotionally manipulative, maintaining a restrained tone entirely devoid of melodrama."
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(1996) |
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"Leigh's film stops short of catharsis, providing the potential for the characters' rebuilding of their relationships without suggesting that such projects are simple or immediate."
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(2008) |
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"Relies heavily on Moreau's gripping, continually surprising performance to effectively convey the oracular urgency and fractured, Dionysian mentality of Seraphine de Senlis and her work."
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(1978) |
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"In spite of the film’s obvious differences from Bergman’s earlier work, it nonetheless explores many of his favorite themes, particularly from the “island” films."
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(2001) |
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(1968) |
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"A powerful political statement, and a deeply humanistic one, without sentimentality or banal heroics."
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(1986) |
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"Unlike Sherman and his reviled scorched earth mode of warfare, McElwee's chasse romantique is ultimately less effectual and usually ends in a nervous, frustrated goodbye."
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(1980) |
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"If Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is not the best haunted house movie ever made, it is certainly among the most intricately constructed."
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(2007) |
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"There is much to "Shotgun Stories" that elevates it above the fray of Green derivatives and unflattering categorizations, bolstered by a roster of naturalistic, fully assimilated performances, led by "Bug"'s now ubiquitous Michael Shannon."
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(2004) |
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"A relentless and painfully funny critique of masculine pretense and selfishness, of which wine fetishism is the apotheosis."
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(1936) |
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(2008) |
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"Cleaves too closely to the pattern set out by more original films with similar subject matter. Its obvious distinctions of time and place come through in clever details, but these don't seem to serve Weiland's autobiography so much as situate it into a fa"
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(2008) |
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"Each bend in the road positively screeches with the urgency of impending catharsis, but the film never earns its resolution."
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(1972) |
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"The larger theme of Solaris is communication itself, particularly the failure of communication between people."
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(2009) |
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"As in all of Meadows's films, Somers Town emphasizes the importance of character and particularly of camaraderie amongst male characters--here, teenagers who nick clothes from the local laundry, get drunk in the park, and furtively investigate masculinity"
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(1990) |
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(2002) |
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"The Second Coming on a trash heap."
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(1954) |
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(1973) |
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"Ana's fearful, credulous eyes are as wide as the flat Castilian horizon, striated by clouds and railroad tracks, which reach beyond the known world."
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(2005) |
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"In charting the effects of a divorce on the two adolescent sons of literary parents, Baumbach revisits the time, place, and events of his young adulthood in a manner that is at once sentimental and a little sneering."
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(2008) |
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"Whatever grim notes Jia may strike about the state of his country, he never loses sight of the desires and interior lives of his characters."
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(1956) |
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"The film's cinematography utilizes an unusual technique for a Mizoguchi film, the close-up, whereby the camera gets steadily closer to each protagonist as the various causes of their downfall to prostitution are revealed."
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately, like Lazarescu, Ovidiu becomes a mere cog in a social and economic system that would chew him up without a moment's consideration, and it's Puiu's goal to elevate this and other such stories above their banality and into the realm of myth."
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately not quite as clever as it thinks it is. Even the action sequences are more about Foley than choreography, and so the film largely rests on the oddity of its mix of styles and its parade of genre in-jokes"
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(1984) |
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"Hou's film places demands on our powers of observation, insisting that we, like Tung-tung, attend to the minutiae, ironies, and deeper meanings it offers us."
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(2005) |
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"The Sun accomplishes the greatest feat that any historical film can: to leave the viewer more confused and uncertain about her knowledge than she was before the film began."
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(1970) |
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(2007) |
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"Apichatpong's patient, observant camera seems to be lying in wait for the moments in which these desires break through the surface, when the spiritual greets the mundane"
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