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(1998) |
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"With its meditative, humanistic tone, After Life is the cinematic reminiscence of limbo itself, this transitional space of contemplation and nostalgia."
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(2009) |
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"Clearly a transitional film for Swanberg, with a more assertive authorial voice on the one hand and more tentative (and unspontaneous) work with professional actors on the other."
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(2008) |
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"This is as faultless a film as I’ve seen in a long time — certainly my best film of 2007."
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(1974) |
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"The final film of the Trilogy of Life further develops Pasolini’s notions of the relationship of narrative to an idealized medieval world."
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(1969) |
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"The result is in many ways the height of Melville’s splicings of daredevil, adventure-story heroics and exceedingly grim twists of fate."
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(1988) |
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"A rich and kinetic portrait of the Hong Kong underworld and its system of pseudo-familial relationships and obligations"
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(1966) |
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"A deft, impassioned, and wrenching film, but also — emphatically, absurdly — a film about a donkey. Indeed, it hardly pretends to be much more."
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(2004) |
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"Part childhood romance, part film noir, part A Star is Born, the film delights in the interplay of surfaces and identities, the painful, shifting masquerade of art and life."
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(2007) |
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"A bold effort to grapple with what truth lies behind these images, rather than to simply throw one's hands up in the face of them"
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(2008) |
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"Approaching its subject with a neat idealism and packaging its political fervor in the most facile of forms, the film boasts a cast loaded with Hollywoods both new and old and wraps its message up with eye-rolling naivete."
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(2007) |
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"Amid this chaos, Sidney Lumet, fast approaching ninety and having directed some sixty feature films, assembles a controlled and steady mood of impending doom."
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(2006) |
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"Ultimately offers little expansion on the original story, little insight into the nature of sadism and masochism in film or in life, and almost no complement to Bunuel's film"
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(2006) |
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"The Big Animal unfolds rather like a fable of modern life, demonstrating how the small community’s intolerance increases with the fervor of Zygmunt’s unexplained devotion."
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(1956) |
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"Always a shrewd melodramatist, with a particular eye for the domestic space, Ray builds this sense of conflict into the Avery home itself, with its frequently competing horizontal and vertical patterns."
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(2008) |
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"With its complex (and, at times, deeply problematic) intersection of an educated outsider with the stubborn realities of rural life, Blind Mountain explicitly harkens back to those classic works from the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, like Yellow"
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(2004) |
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"Its sense of duration physically affects the viewer, not only showing its protagonists in sleepy contemplation onscreen, but also literally demanding the same of the viewer"
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(2006) |
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"A force of political provocation less on the level of the cuddly Archie Bunker and more on that of Pasolini's libertines in Salò and Pink Flamingos' "filthiest people alive.""
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(2005) |
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"Jordan’s film may seem like the tale of a gay Gump bumbling through history, but Kitten is neither as clueless nor as apolitical as he may seem."
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(1995) |
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"In Eastwood's hands, it seems, even divorce can be more romantic than orgasms under the right circumstances."
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(2005) |
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"This is a film about insufficiency on so many levels, a film not of hipster indifference, but of a certain effete inability to react."
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(2008) |
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"A painfully old-fashioned trick, a game played many times before, by far more thoughtful filmmakers with greater commands of and ideas about their medium."
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(2005) |
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"Like the very best of Hitchcock, marries both high- and low-brows in the compulsively watchable format of the thriller."
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(2004) |
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"The film looks for small connections and fragments of significance in the comings and goings of everyday life."
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(1979) |
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"As one character puts it, “filmmakers are service providers,” and despite the unromantic tone of such a designation, this seems to be very near to Kieslowski’s own view."
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(1971) |
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"In contrast to the Italy of Pasolini's Decameron, the England of The Canterbury Tales is much more harsh in its treatment of vice of all kinds."
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(2003) |
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"John Sayles' most recent film, 2003's Casa de los Babys, exemplifies his approach to the intersection of the political and the personal."
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(1942) |
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"Female sexuality is a rich source of a certain kind of horror - the kind of horror that plays upon the anxieties that prudish bourgeois men have about their wives' sex lives."
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(2007) |
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"Ramps down Tolstoy's soap-opera grandiosity, while still managing to elevate the banalities of a high-society dalliance to the level of a cosmic psychodrama"
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"Ultimately, the film serves the function of a music video for Aphex Twin, and not one that breaks any new ground."
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(2008) |
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"Each in succession, the curiosities of A Christmas Tale burst from the surface of the film, almost incapable of containing themselves, their passions, their disappointments, their awkward eruptions of alcoholic rage and familial resentment."
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(1941) |
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"This is the inherent paradox of Welles' film: that its ending should be so equivocal, providing a satisfying resolution that simultaneously scoffs at such over-simplification."
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(2008) |
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"Cantet's film lulls the spectator into the rhythms of the everyday reality of school, belying a very carefully coordinated narrative structure that only becomes apparent in its final act."
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(2006) |
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"Like Cassavetes' lead roles, Ceylan's is boorish and repellent, admirable only in his stubborn resolve, his physical power, and occasional flashes of absurdity and pathos."
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(2009) |
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"Giamatti's usual character%u2014at least, the one that Cold Souls wishes to exploit%u2014is paper-thin, working better on the periphery than in the center of the narrative."
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(2005) |
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"Admirably composed, even if it ultimately feels a bit of a shame that it all has to come down to good guys and bad guys."
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(1979) |
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"An extension of Cousteau’s lifelong project of education and environmental awareness, but also an expansion of the mythology of Cousteau himself."
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(2004) |
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"The film comprises a series of events, all mundane and seemingly random, that steadily coheres into a single, multifaceted image by the film’s end."
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(1964) |
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"Culloden achieves its effect through the glaringly anachronistic use of a TV crew, begging its spectator to ponder her position in relation to the historical events onscreen."
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(1957) |
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"Beautifully portrayed by Christopher Lee, the Monster is almost heartbreaking, flailing confusedly with a pained expression on its patchwork face."
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(2007) |
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"The film offers the obvious guilty pleasure of a highly successful practical joke, but it also pauses for a meditation on the power of marketing and empty promises."
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(2008) |
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"Begins with a shot of Meryl Streep practicing tai chi, and therein lies a precise encapsulation of the film's attitude toward the intersection of Eastern and Western cultures"
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(1996) |
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"Characteristically meandering and sardonic, with Robby Muller's floating, shimmering camerawork, a catalog of witty cameos, and one of the most beautiful modern film-scores"
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(2006) |
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"When the film's title is finally, quietly realized, it affords the viewer a hard-won, if mournful liberation."
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(1970) |
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"Pasolini questions his own dream, his idealization of this beautiful, bucolic world he has created in which peasant and artist and the Virgin Mary coexist in divine harmony."
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(1977) |
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"A combination of Kubrick's 2001 and Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, with a dash of Buster Keaton's Electric House thrown in"
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(1967) |
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"A curiously self-serious film, almost a message picture about black magic, albeit with great puffs of smoke, a giant spider, and a man in a goat costume"
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(2007) |
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"Even if Schnabel’s films utilize a rolodex as burgeoning as their film’s visual inventiveness, they still do so playfully and with a sense of the fun of moviemaking that so few films of similar lineage display."
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(1974) |
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"The viewer is left with the question of which of John Baxter’s aphorisms to believe: “Seeing is believing” or “Nothing is what it seems.”"
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(2006) |
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"What is undeniable is that this, even more than Barney's previous work, is a film of outrageous, startling ingenuity and beauty."
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(2008) |
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"If there is a criticism to be lobbed at Nelson's judicious but otherwise highly entertaining tribute, it's that it too often plays the role of the fawning, autograph-hungry fanboy, willing to accept all of the abuse Ellison wishes to hurl at it."
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