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(1987) |
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"nobody subjects humanity to doom-laden fatalism quite like Tarr, and Damnation is unmissable for fans of the auteur's oeuvre, or of mud-spattered miserabilism in general."
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Eye for Film |
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(2007) |
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"There is no mistaking Hedges' film for anything other than a saccharine corn-fest, but what keeps it from palling entirely is the strength of the ensemble performances, and the smartly understated writing."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"while this is not quite Heathers, the high school setting allows for some amiable teen satire to give all those rotting corpses a certain freshness."
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"captures with apparent effortlessness the tongue-tied self-consciousness and dreamy disorientation that growing up entails."
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Channel 4 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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musicOMH.com |
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(2007) |
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"A love letter to Paris, an homage to the Nouvelle Vague, and a Christmas family film."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"The interview with director Honore packs a welcome intellectual heft to elevate it well above your average DVD extra (including the others included on this disc)."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"If you like your SF challenging, bleak and unapologetically theosophical, Dante 01 offers a vision of hell that you may well find heavenly."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"Hurtling towards an ending that is far less pat than expected, the film... is too mobile and busy to be forced into a single compartment."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"this intelligent, remarkably responsible approach to some of the most pressing issues of our times will make The Dark Knight be remembered, and cherished, long after the summer is over."
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musicOMH.com |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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"a stylish cut above most of the recent J-horror remakes - but once again it seems that the waters of Asian ghost stories flow purer, deeper and darker at source.
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Movie Gazette |
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9/10 |
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(2002) |
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"just beneath its surface horror this film conceals a deep reservoir of tragedy, addressing themes like family breakdown, isolation, abandonment, and - something of a taboo in Japan - the terrible legacy of mental illness."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"Lee's film is lurid, tacky, anarchic, fast and funny -- even if it suffers from an episodic structure that merely introduces ensemble characters without giving them much to do or experience."
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"far less smart and often less funny than the films it ridicules."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Darkly funny, tense and devastatingly grim, it manages to bring a classic horror back to life without stinking of rot."
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Movie Gazette |
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6/10 |
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(2004) |
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"may terrify its American viewers into doing something that the British have always enjoyed - talking about the weather."
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(1985) |
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"A grim, gory vision of humanity being torn apart."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"all at once a complex morality tale, a dark mirror of post-Soviet Russia, and a masterpiece of dynamic surrealism, displaying some of the most imaginative visual effects yet seen in a feature-length movie."
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musicOMH.com |
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7/10 |
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(1981) |
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"Darkly funny horror about a town that cannot keep its secrets buried."
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Movie Gazette |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"In this prequel to all American haunted house movies, the past is just like the future."
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Movie Gazette |
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(1996) |
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"a low-key classic of strangely poetic beauty - a western for sleepwalkers and dreamers."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"A West Country high plains drifter metes out hard justice to the Midlands in this gritty revenger's tragedy."
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Movie Gazette |
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"a disappointing lo-fi sci-fi closer to an excellent trilogy - even if its climactic sequence is one of Miike's ballsiest."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"a familiar apocalyptic scenario (pandemic virus turns the infected into flesh-hungry killers) within an unusually intimate frame."
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Little White Lies |
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(2009) |
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"disinter[s] the kind of gleefully big-and-bloody horror comedy showcased by films like The Evil Dead (1981) and Braindead (1992)."
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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(2008) |
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"a sombre film that never shows more than it needs to, and never allows its more outrageous or shocking moments to descend into sadistic spectacle or farce."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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"This satirical love letter to America's gun culture has a very high calibre."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"For farce to work well, the plotting needs to be watertight, whereas here the sheer excess of characters fails entirely to cover up this film's flimsy underpinnings."
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Eye for 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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(2006) |
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"A pity that Kaneko's direction is once again too workaday to fashion such strong material into a truly engaging visual experience."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"blending social commentary with spiritual allegory, it traces one man's nocturnal descent into the Circle of Hell that is Romania's healthcare service"
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musicOMH.com |
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(2007) |
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"Tarantino has literally lost the plot, foregoing narrative drive for loquacious idling."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"a balls-to-the-wall tank-ful of amiable idiocy, fast-paced enough to keep anyone's eye on the road."
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Little White Lies |
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9/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Mortality, oblivion and the ravages of time have never looked so hauntingly, beautifully timeless."
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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"A spectacular evocation of life in the world's waters, even if at times it meanders like the ocean currents."
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Movie Gazette |
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5/5 |
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(1978) |
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"Gauging the shifting moods of the 1970s, this tale of life and love disrupted by war is as arresting as a bullet to the brain."
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Channel 4 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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"Definitely a comedy, maybe a romance -- has enough sophistication and surprise to keep even the most hardened curmudgeon smiling to the bittersweet end."
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Channel 4 Film |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Like its protagonist, you may find yourself wanting to see it more than once to appreciate how everything fits together - which earns Deja Vu the status of a classic, at least for the future."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(2003) |
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"A bleak cyber-thriller that bids you to see through the glossy images on the screen's surface."
[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"This dark labyrinth of trauma, treachery and troglodytes sets terrifying traps for the mind."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2009) |
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"as horror in the thrill-ride mould, The Descent: Part 2 certainly delivers cheap sensations aplenty."
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Little White Lies |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Like real sex, this collection ranges from exhilarating to frustrating, from kinky to dull - and like real porn, it will have the viewer wishing at times for a fast-forward button."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2007) |
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"combin[es] murderous thrills with something altogether more otherworldly."
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Eye for Film |
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(1941) |
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"Juxtapose the name of a true-life nineteenth-century orator, attorney and senator with the Biblical personification of evil, and you capture something of the strange mix here of social realism and moralising mythology"
[movie review] |
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Little White Lies |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"There are some witty lines and pretty outfits, but when it comes to diabolical satire, The Devil Wears Prada merely strikes a pose."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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9/10 |
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(2005) |
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"one disorientingly demented trip through the terrain of 1970s outlaw grindhouse."
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Movie Gazette |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"Diameter Of The Bomb traces an explosion's ripple effect through two communities locked in mutual anguish, while offering in its own dialectic form a model for something like a solution to the endless horror."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"moody transposition of a classic psychological thriller/ghost story to the unlikely but effective setting of a London council estate."
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Little White Lies |
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