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(1973) |
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"adapted from Guido Crepax's comic strip 'Valentina', [it's] an elegant phantasmagoria - perhaps not revolutionary in the true sense, but certainly unique, and far from the Eurosleaze schlockfest you might be expecting."
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"an affecting examination of disconnected lives in an interconnected world."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"While certainly amiable enough, Michael McCullers' directorial debut is, like the gestation that it portrays, somewhat sloppily conceived and capable of delivering no more than what is expected."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"The future looks a lot like the past (or at least like past movies) in this lazily derivative SF action flick."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"rock-solid performances and an atmosphere of moody menace never fail to grip, even if the film traverses territories that are just a little overfamiliar."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"this badass polysexual freakshow is unlikely to be showing in a multiplex near you, but is the perfect midnight feature."
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Little White Lies |
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(1993) |
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"this dark satire-cum-parable (cling)wraps itself in a quirkily beautiful aesthetic that keeps us watching even when the material is at its most repellent or alarming."
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Little White Lies |
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3/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Full of misfiring humour, inappropriately sadistic violence, and paddle-pool shallowness."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"A convoluted and enigmatic noir melodrama about the Holy Cross, cross-dressing and double-crossing - with an obscure autobiographical twist."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream - and yet this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs. Finding a way out the other side of that contradiction is half the fun for the incredulous viewer"
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Eye for Film |
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(2003) |
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"Hilariously irreverent antidote to a cloying Christmas."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Born of indignation, Bamako bears devastating witness to the iniquities of free trade and globalisation from a Malian perspective."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2009) |
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"Todd Graff’s coming-of-age musical comedy may hardly be original, but the secret is all in the mix: sweet enough to please the kids, while acerbically downbeat enough to keep the attention of any accompanying adults."
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Little White Lies |
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(2004) |
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"The buffalo are big, the battles brutal and bloody in this gritty Thai epic - but unfortunately the characters are too blank to be interesting."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"a timeless tragedy unfolds in slow motion - but the viewer's patience is rewarded with exquisite painterly images, some unexpectedly rapid developments and a truly bleak vision of human error and its consequences."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2003) |
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"Its vicious satire and ambivalent final images leave a bitter aftertaste to ensure that its message of cautious optimism, though sweet, never becomes too cloying.
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Movie Gazette |
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(1983) |
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"uses the stylised strokes of animation to show what would otherwise be beyond the bounds of cinematic representation"
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Eye for Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(1986) |
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"While Barefoot Gen 2 may play itself out as a sort of plucky boys' own adventure, this animated feature allows glimpses of far grimmer realities to be exposed."
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Eye for Film |
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(1982) |
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"like Eraserhead updated for the slasher generation, Basket Case is a deranged psychodrama, full of gleefully gory set-pieces, quirky humour, and some impossibly moving pathos."
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Eye for Film |
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(2005) |
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"In his best, and darkest, outing to date, the masked avenger's personal 'issues' reflect those of the world in the wake of 9/11."
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Movie Gazette |
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1/5 |
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(2006) |
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"rich in allegorical theme and symbolic imagery, transforming the most banal of materials into miraculous epiphanies... but all too aimlessly hypnotic to get a firm grip on the viewer's attention."
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Eye for Film |
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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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(2005) |
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"too amiably daft to be truly biting."
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Movie Gazette |
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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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(2005) |
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"Much of the 49-minute duration is taken up by the moderator translating the French responses, even though these are also fully (and far more accurately) subtitled on the DVD."
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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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(2005) |
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"a long, meandering accumulation of unnecessary detail, where any number of episodes might have "got the chop" with little damage to the overall integrity of the film."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"immaculately composed tracking shots... unfold at their own deliberate pace to reveal the meandering paths travelled by a fragile humanity."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Ben X's brand of reality [is] as vital as it is virtual."
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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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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A gruff, bawdy boys'-own adventure with a surprisingly sophisticated sting in its tail."
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Eye for Film |
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5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a contemplative, almost poetic examination of the proper workings of justice, and an exemplary depiction of a ruined family rebuilt on the foundations of its own humanistic values."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2000) |
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"a clumsy and immature affair, second-rate not just as a wuxia but as a piece of narrative film-making."
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Tense, cruel and hilariously absurd all at once, it may, as its title suggests, not add up to so very much, but it is a deliciously entertaining journey into the night which, at under 90 minutes, never overstays its welcome."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2009) |
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"An uncategorisable exploration of the contradictions to be found in Franco-African identity... where a whole history of crime, poverty and colonial exploitation are portrayed through mythology as a clash of the totems."
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Little White Lies |
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(2002) |
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"finds just the right balance between scenes inside and outside the courtroom, and deftly juggles an unusually large number of characters without ever seeming cluttered.
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Movie Gazette |
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(1998) |
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"It is as though Four Weddings And A Funeral had been reimagined by Fellini with a cast of crazy Balkan rogues and a background chorus of farmyard animals."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"this reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and variation that has evolved over the last thirty or so years since the original Black Christmas screened."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"It is attractively shot, thoughtfully edited, provocatively argued, and might just have you turning its issues over in your mind late into the night - or is that just the effect of so much coffee?"
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musicOMH.com |
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(1975) |
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"a very basic package, offering as its only extra a five-minute interview with Louis Malle's brother Vincent, who struggles (hilariously) to categorise the film."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1975) |
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"A curiosity on the margins of the Malle canon, and a real treat for fans of the phantasmagorical."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1991) |
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"An effectively eerie supernatural thriller - even if it tries to exorcise a few too many ghosts for its own good."
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Movie Gazette |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Like its ovine stars, Black Sheep is none too smart, but will certainly coat you in its fluffy warmth and put an affectionate smile on your face. Lacks much real bite, mind."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"Black Water may be derivative, but it ain't no crock"
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"Blackout gets stuck between genres, without enough decent characterisation (or uninterrupted tension) to take it to the next level."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2004) |
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"Ryan Reynolds' endless tone-lowering, Blade-baiting quips temporarily distract viewers from the script's more pressing problems."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2004) |
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"A rambunctiously entertaining, eccentric combination of superfast swordplay, knockabout humour and stylish surrealism."
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"although the degeneration of events from bad to worse is made unbearably tense, Won also peppers his film with black humour, without ever abandoning his allegiance to social commentary."
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Eye for Film |
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(1993) |
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"Glitterbug is of greater appeal to the hardened Jarman collector than to the casual viewer - but it offers nearly two decades of English twentieth century history in montage."
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Channel 4 Film |
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