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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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"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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(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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"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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(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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"Death and regret hang over the film palpably, and Miniucchi's willingness to put her characters through disaster and humiliation while still plainly empathizing with them is what keeps the film surprising and its characters winning, in spite of themselves"
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" Even an offhand debate between a few students late in the film about whether or not Bush is a "retard," while not exactly insightful, nonetheless portrays a student body for whom politics%u2014or at least arguing about it%u2014is essential."
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"Nostalgic, deeply felt, and refreshingly astute, "Fugitive Pieces" is something of a rare bird these days%u2014a big-budget, transnational historical drama that actually justifies its scope and subject matter with more than visual opulence."
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(2008) |
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"Bears a superficial resemblance to "The Conformist" and "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," with their sense of dreary complacency, oppressively museum-like spaces, and curiously drab natural settings, but ultimately "Good" is less evocative"
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"Malkovich's titular mentalist is the primary focus of attention%u2014and sadly the source of many of the film's unique problems. In a career of strange performances, Malkovich turns in a true curiosity here%u2014and maybe it's because he is not, for once,"
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(2009) |
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"The talent and craftsmanship of "Is Anybody There?" is ample, but it remains uncertain whether there's anybody here still interested in this all-too-familiar story."
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(2008) |
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"A hopelessly overblown melodrama, which oversteps its mark with pretensions of narrative complexity and social currency"
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"There aren't many surprises%u2014the characters end up more or less where we expect them to%u2014but it's useless and not at all fun to deny the simple pleasures of this film."
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"Its surprisingly structured depiction of this relationship and its many private rituals and performances, which the film's unforgiving style continually strips bare"
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"Mostly a little shrewder about stereotypes than your typical slacker comedy, deriving its edge from Yu and Tsai's mining of the cultural specificity of Asian-America for laughs"
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"In fact, "Quid Pro Quo" is not at all funny, merely occasionally sarcastic, its plot a succession of half-baked pop-psych speculations and its dialogue a glib sampling of sub-Diablo Cody incredibility"
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"It's a wonder a group of experienced film professionals could not make "Reunion" look and sound the least bit proficient or even entertaining"
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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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"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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"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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(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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(2008) |
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"Oliver's film manages to grapple with some knotty questions about justice, even if it is not nearly as bold or ironic as Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine""
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(2008) |
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"Canet has covered his bases with enough swooping camerawork, narrative smoke-and-mirrors, and quick-sketched supporting characters for a dozen thrillers"
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"Wang's new film suggests not only a return to form but also the revival of an old theme from his early Asian-American dramedies: the different ways that certain generations translate and adapt their cultural heritage"
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(2008) |
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"Mostly strong, that is, with the major exception of Tom Guiry's portrayal of Joe Jr. Painfully broad, Guiry practically sinks the film with garishly slack-jawed and over-the-top manchildishness."
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(1963) |
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(1992) |
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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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(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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"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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"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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"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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(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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"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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(1979) |
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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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"The film looks for small connections and fragments of significance in the comings and goings of everyday life."
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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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"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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"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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"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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