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(1973) |
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"Matsushima may spend most, even all, of her time on the outside, but here the whole world has been converted into a penitentiary, and any escape is either short-lived or illusory."
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Film International |
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(2008) |
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"Brimming with exploitation antics, grindhouse sensibilities and, heh heh, exploding bunnies, Doomsday conjures a future thrown back to the dead-end styles and amoral excesses of the eighties - and no future could be bleaker than that."
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(2007) |
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"A confronting examination of human evil in all its enduring banality, Heartbeat Detector takes a crooked path towards its bid for some straight talking."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1977) |
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"bears all the hallmarks of Bresson's celebrated restraint, but it also shows its age, so failing to engage that, like its protagonist, you too will (probably) find yourself just wanting it to end."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"for all the curiosity of seeing Foster in a rare comic rôle, her neurotic, tic-afflicted, accident-prone Alexandra annoys more than she engages, which is a problem for a character who contributes so little to the actual plot apart from diversion"
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"go[es] through all the clichéd tropes of addiction, recovery and terminal illness while at the same time repeatedly subverting them."
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(2007) |
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"Amidst all this sequel's state-of-the-art 3D visuals and technological obsessions is a quest for the human beyond (or at least within) the machine."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"This magical realist memoir of the small men (and women) in history is a sprawling carnivalesque treat - as tall and refreshing as a tankard of Czech beer and with the same bitter aftertaste."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"Not only will you have a pretty good idea from the start what is going to happen to all these 'characters', but, even worse, you will not care when it does. A film so soulless deserves to be confined to DVD hell."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"Chile's first martial arts movie is a cheesy trip through 1980s excess, where genre quickly gets lost in the desert. It's knowingly daft fun with a violent sting in its tail."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"while Death Note may boast what is in every sense a killer concept, it's rather blandly directed, repetitive, over-explained and overlong"
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"its undeniable sense of spectacle is best appreciated on a very big screen - even if, after a full-throttle build-up, the film's final sequences seem oddly anticlimactic."
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(2008) |
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"could Argento really, like his Mater Lachrymarum, be returning to bring a second reign of blood, chaos and terror to the world? Or will he, like his heroine Sarah, find himself once again wading through shit? The truth lies somewhere in between."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"survival horror cheap and nasty enough to get genre fans drooling - but it is also consummately crafted, heralding the welcome return of Australia's finest exploitation writer Everett De Roche."
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Channel 4 Film |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Simon DaVison gets the charmingly clunky look and feel of 1950s SF spot on - but he also captures the genre's more tedious shortcomings a little too accurately for the average viewer's patience to bear."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately, Protégé is a derivative mess, unable to give viewers already familiar with its influences the hit that they need."
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Eye for Film |
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(1965) |
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"a maddening celebration of the power of narrative to amuse, bewilder, disorient and entrap."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"even as this odd couple cuts its destructive path through the social order in a story that is essentially a tragedy, they come across as idealised revolutionaries rather than deluded victims of love."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"My Brother Is An Only Child reminisces with improbable yet affecting fondness over the adolescents behind the -isms that would shape post-war Italy."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This uncategorisable asylum-set ensemble dramedy backs up its extraordinary visual effects with a lot of heart."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Featuring a game whose practitioners cultivate friendships rather than rivalries, in a time and a place where conflict was otherwise all too easy to find, The Go Master is a biopic of rare subtlety, delicacy and stillness."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Here, the visceral, the intellectual and the spiritual all come together, elevating The Escapist beyond merely escapist entertainment, and offering something that any viewer can dig."
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(2008) |
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"Cheung's film concentrates not so much on fighting itself as the question of what fighting is for, and whether it can ever be justified."
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"this litany of human disconnection, misery, frustration and despair... would be an almost unbearably bleak mosaic of our living deaths, were it not for Andersson's profound appreciation of Chaplin's observation that comedy is tragedy seen in long-shot."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Moody, tense and claustrophobic, Cedar's unconventional war movie allegorises the political tensions within a beleaguered, bunkered Israel."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"It is not that Caotica Ana lacks ideas - it positively brims with them - but they are all treated with a shallow desultoriness that brings little satisfaction..."
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Eye for Film |
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(2003) |
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"Miike's return to the horror genre is a slicker and less original affair than Audition, but also sharply dissects the J-horror phenomenon even as it scares the hell out of you."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Beautifully realised, entertainingly absurd and as true to the original as a feature-length expansion can be, this animated allegory gets the child in all of us to think big thoughts about small things."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"this Funny Games remake is as thrilling, as provocative, and as harrowing as the original - but only because it is a near carbon copy."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1961) |
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"Antonioni's film feels like one very long, not entirely rewarding night of despair."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"An astoundingly well-made debut - even if The Orphanage is ultimately as empty as it is haunted."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"a bludgeoning, bloody trawl through the cliches of survival horror, with a strong contemporary political subtext - and as with any good barbecue, there is plenty of red sauce, and absolutely nothing has been left underdone."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Williams' story twists and turns...veering from Coen caper to Hooper horror -- but the one unifying constant is the film's wicked streak of humour."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"a complex, ambitious anatomisation of the workings of justice in a deeply iniquitous world"
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"Reflexive, allegorical and poetic, La Antena is a dizzyingly dense piece of cinema, thriving on paradox, and always matching its medium to its message."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"there is something rather refreshing about the elliptical manner in which Bernal has chosen to anatomise divisions of class and race in contemporary Mexico."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Vantage Point prefers to stick with the familiar, so that it ends up, bizarrely enough, affirming rather than challenging the viewer's prejudices."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2007) |
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"while without question funny at times (and sad at others), [it is] never mocking, degrading or lewd - a true miracle for a film about one man's relationship with a sex doll"
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Eye for Film |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"sees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"a... po-faced affair, pretending to be above all the sensationalism and depravity that it exploits, as though Hoblit and co. are somehow themselves immune from their killer's obsession with viewing figures."
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Eye for Film |
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(1992) |
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"To Benny, and to us, too (at least for the duration of the film) the mediated image - blinkered, manipulable, vicarious - is the 'reality' of choice."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"what might in other hands have been ethnographic agitprop is instead an engaging, character-based tragicomedy, grounded in what might be called the politics of real people."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"With ensemble performances as intense as its drama, The Edge of Heaven leaves the viewer, like Nejat, sitting and waiting in patient awe for an end that will blow in either heavenly reconciliation or hellish oblivion."
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(1997) |
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"Much as violence follows hatred, Kassovitz follows up his breakout film La Haine with this challenging investigation into the evolving traditions of male sociopathy."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"the 'reality drama' that unfolds on-screen takes viewers away from the real ecological issue (much as it took Stewart away from his diving)"
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Eye for Film |
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(1954) |
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"Hardly Mizoguchi's finest film, but this period passion play has moments of brilliance amidst all the complicated melodrama."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"It may be full of madcap surrealism and clever-clever meta-cinematic touches, but it is also an unfashionably good-natured film with real heart. Oddball, endearing, and very, very funny..."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Out of the bloodiest horror, the darkest noir and the bleakest morality drama, Tom Shankland has crafted an unusual and highly affecting love story, with a central performance from Stellan Skarsgård to die for."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"with teenagers, there will always come a time when innocence must be lost - but Levine's film transfixes this moment with the sharpness of a razor."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2008) |
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"Jumper never really seems, for all its spatial to-ing and fro-ing, to get up and moving properly. Perhaps it should have been called Hopper..."
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