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8/10 |
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(1966) |
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"masks the uneasy rebirth of a nation behind its story of personal transformation"
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"This portrait of an artist as a young sot reels and swaggers towards some kind of redemptive conclusion but, in a truly bold move on the part of the filmmakers, never quite gets there."
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"...plays like a fever dream of cinematic spectacle, offering a wide-screen parade of some of the most achingly beautiful and awe-inspiring cinematography ever to have been seen."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2005) |
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"bitchy candour, impossible in a bigger budget production, makes this featurette unusually refreshing."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"This multiethnic, polyglot war epic successfully marries its grand ambitions to a minuscule budget."
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Channel 4 Film |
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9/10 |
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(1980) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2006) |
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"Sorrentino is often accused of being all style and no substance, but on the contrary his films are carefully built around the contrast between surface appearances and hidden depths."
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Eye for Film |
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(1967) |
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"unlike in Jodorowsky's later, longer works, here the parade of oddballs, freaks and degenerates never seems to have much drive or direction."
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Eye for Film |
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Let's hope the follow-ups turn out to be better -- they could hardly be worse."
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Movie Gazette |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Kids will probably have a blast - but pity their parents having to explain afterwards what exactly those American federal agents were doing torturing a gurneyed prisoner in a secret Siberian base."
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musicOMH.com |
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(2009) |
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"a fantastic adaptation that manages to surpass its source material while staying entirely true to its spirit."
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Eye for Film |
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(1973) |
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"The strange worlds elaborated by Laloux could hardly be described as utopian, but nonetheless he uses them as a staging ground from which to try to resolve his concerns about the folly and aggression to be found on our own savage planet."
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Eye for Film |
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(2009) |
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"Everything here cuts to the chase, with personalities presented in a streamlined shorthand, and dramatic plausibility sacrificed to the need for speed... Fast & Furious, Fatuous & Forgotten."
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"In cutting through the conventional cliches of Holocaust presentation to a more singular truth, Gyuri defies viewers to refuse him the license to tell his own story as he himself saw and felt it, rather than as others might prefer him to tell it."
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Eye for Film |
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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10/10 |
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(2001) |
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"a haunting, intelligent piece of grand guignol - with a look all of its own"
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Movie Gazette |
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9/10 |
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(2003) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"the best piece here - Richard McGuire's hermetic haunted house tale, drawn in the starkly grey-less style of Renaissance - is also the only segment allowed to play uninterrupted."
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Little White Lies |
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(2006) |
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"amidst all the gleeful profanity, gross character stereotyping, outrageous interspecies rape and gory grotesquery, an apparent lack of originality is the one thing that should not cause undue offence here."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"Deeply shocking and darkly funny, Feed slowly brings its satire of consumerism and control to the boil, before ramming it right down the throat."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2006) |
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"Leonard also relates how he and his crew, shooting guerrilla-style in Sydney's red light district, were chased off by angry pimps who thought they were undercover policemen."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2008) |
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"Salomé... struggles to resist the occupation of his film by misplaced cliché and awkward melodrama, undermining any claim to authenticity."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1972) |
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"when it comes to genre, Ito, like his protagonist, just will not be confined or restrained, making Jailhouse 41 as aesthetically striking and deliriously weird a WIP pic as is ever likely to be made."
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Eye for Film |
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(1972-1973) |
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"Exploitation cinema of the highest order, not to be missed by anyone who likes their genre filmmaking with an adventurous edge that knows no restraint."
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Eye for Film |
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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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3.5/5 |
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(1973) |
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"With its emphasis on female nudity, this may be cinema more for the devoted voyeur than the casual viewer - but at the same time it puts the male gaze in its place."
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Eye for Film |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"As elegant and addling as the enigma(s) at its core, this claustrophobic thriller will keep viewers conjecturing right up to its humanist solution."
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Channel 4 Film |
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6/10 |
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(1998) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2007) |
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"this animated noir pastiche for adults... may be an experience as forgettable as its hero's past, but it is an agreeably guilty pleasure while it lasts, with a striking visual style."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(1968) |
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"Whether you are a long-time fanatic or a wide-eyed novice to Jodorowsky's heady brand of filmmaking, this is an exquisitely packaged collection of the early works of one of cinema's most idiosyncratic individualists."
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Eye for Film |
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6/10 |
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(2003) |
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"beautiful to look at, and not without humour, but ... its waters are starting to taste just a little stale."
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Movie Gazette |
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(2008) |
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"Fujita adopts a dry, observational style reminiscent of Jacques Tati or Roy Andersson, making the madcap incidents and whimsical idiosyncrasies in his sketches seem all the funnier for being kept at such a cool distance"
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Little White Lies |
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(2007) |
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"all moody set-up with no real follow-through -- like an initially striking sound that has been dampened before it can resonate."
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Channel 4 Film |
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6/10 |
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(1996) |
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Movie Gazette |
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10/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"carefully dismantling one heroic archetype only to replace it with another, more nuanced one"
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musicOMH.com |
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6/10 |
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(2004) |
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Movie Gazette |
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(2005) |
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"a white-knuckle ride into the anxieties and terrors of the new millennium... Fasten your seatbelts."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"Many of the extras directed at adults on this disc could easily have been flushed away themselves."
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Eye for Film |
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(2006) |
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"Exciting, adventurous, and flush with visual and verbal gags, Aardman's latest stands out from the many other children's animations released this year because it seems a labour of love rather than a soulless commodity."
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Eye for Film |
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(2008) |
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"Few would claim there are no flies on this one, but at least the outstanding 3D effects are some compensation for the dumbed-down inanity of everything else."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Yearning for a time when warfare seemed so much simpler and more honourable, Flyboys is a thrilling, spectacular ride - but only when its dull characters get off the ground."
[movie review] |
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Channel 4 Film |
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1/5 |
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(2005) |
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"So concerned is the film with contriving at least one gratuitous jump-fright every five minutes that elements like character and story soon become lost in the fog."
[movie review] |
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Eye for Film |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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(1989) |
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"It could be argued that the Apollo missions were essentially a big, expensive photo opportunity for the propaganda machine of the Cold War, but Reinert's film serves to remind us that they also redefined who, where and why we are."
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Little White Lies |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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[movie review] |
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Movie Gazette |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This plodding mood-piece is as emotionally engaging as a paint catalogue."
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Channel 4 Film |
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(2005) |
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"The 13 minutes of deleted scenes would, if restored, add little to the film's overall coherence - but the same might be said of many of the scenes that made the final cut."
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Channel 4 Film |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Seldom in cinema has eschatology been treated with such intelligence, or inspired such aching awe."
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Eye for Film |
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